HBO’s “Game of Thrones” named most pirated show of 2012 December 28, 2012 - 18:40 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The hit HBO drama Game of Thrones topped blog TorrentFreak's study of the most pirated shows of 2012, which skewed heavily toward pay cable and genre shows, The Hollywood Reporter said. TorrentFreak reports that the top Game of Thrones episode was illegally downloaded 4.28 million times in 2012, though more than 90 percent of the downloads occur in the first week of a show's first-run airing. For comparison, the June 3 season two finale drew 4.2 million viewers in the U.S. during its first-run airing on HBO, a ratings record for the show. The second-most pirated show was Showtime's Dexter with 3.85 million first-week downloads, topping its legal U.S. audience of 2.75 million. The top broadcast network show on the list is CBS' comedy The Big Bang Theory with 3.2 million illegal downloads. CBS also had the second-most pirated network show with No. 4's How I Met Your Mother (2.96 million downloads). Breaking Bad, with 2.58 million downloads (vs. 2.98 million U.S. viewers) was the most pirated basic cable show. Rounding out the top 10 are The Walking Dead (AMC), Homeland (Showtime), House (Fox), Fringe (Fox) and Revolution (NBC).   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan  A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia.U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel.Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |
