{"id":91839,"date":"2016-05-13T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T06:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91839"},"modified":"2016-05-13T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T06:23:16","slug":"hbo-is-serious-about-fighting-game-of-thrones-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/91839-hbo-is-serious-about-fighting-game-of-thrones-pirates","title":{"rendered":"HBO is serious about fighting Game of Thrones pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HBO has begun cracking down on Game of Thrones pirates,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/hbo-warns-game-of-thrones-pirates-removes-torrents-160507\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TorrentFreak<\/strong> <\/a>reports.<\/p>\n<p>HBO\u2019s anti-piracy partner, IP Echelon, has sent thousands of warnings to Internet service providers asking them to take action against alleged pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The warnings contain the IP addresses of subscribers who downloaded\u00a0an episode of the show through BitTorrent.<\/p>\n<p>This coincides with the release of Season 6 of the show, as major torrent sites have removed hundreds of links &#8211; sometimes within minutes of them being uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, HBO took a relatively relaxed stance on the piracy of its hit TV-show, with programming president Michael Lombardo stating that the high-piracy rate was &#8220;a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2013\/03\/31\/hbo-thrones-piracy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>compliment<\/strong> <\/a>of sorts.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Hidden PlayStation 4 features only power users know about\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/91689-hidden-playstation-4-features-only-power-users-know-about.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hidden PlayStation 4 features only power users know about<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Games you can play this week \u2013 danger and demons\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/91771-games-you-can-play-this-week-danger-and-demons.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Games you can play this week \u2013 danger and demons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia GTX 1080 ultimate guide \u2013 performance and specifications\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91737-nvidia-gtx-1080-ultimate-guide-performance-and-specifications.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia GTX 1080 ultimate guide \u2013 performance and specifications<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO has begun cracking down on Game of Thrones pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":91841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,4555,101,5988,10012],"class_list":["post-91839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-piracy","tag-television","tag-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91853,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91839\/revisions\/91853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}