Brazil reigns in Game of Thrones pirated downloads

O pirate Saladhor Saan would be proud of us. Game of Thrones is the most pirated series in the world, and Brazil leads the ranking of countries with a large advantage.

According to the piracy monitoring service Irdeto, between February 5th and April 6th of that year more than 116 copies of the episodes were downloaded every day on average (a “download” is a unique IP address, identified by company systems and which has pirated a unique file on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network).

were more than 7 millions of downloads with no new episodes premiering, against just 5,7 million The Walking Dead, which ran for 8 episodes, including the season finale, during the period. And it is also worth mentioning that the horror series has 67 episodes in total, against only 40 of Game of Thrones. the series of HBO thus retains its title of the most pirated in the world for the fourth year in a row – it only lost in 2011, its debut year, to Dexter.

And among all, no country has surpassed the enormous army of Casa Brasil. With 935.990 illegal downloads of Game of Thrones, Brazil occupies the Iron Throne of piracy. It is more than a fifth above second place France, with 772.721 copies downloaded. From 2014 to now we also had a 47% growth in the number of downloads of the series, above the world average of 45%. Some countries such as Canada, China and Italy have seen growth above, but India has skyrocketed in this race, which has increased by 155% but is still at 200.023 pirated episodes.

The 5th season of Game of Thrones premieres today (12/04) in a few hours, but four episodes have already leaked, and will certainly help keep the series at the forefront of piracy. Already downloaded?

Source: Mashable, Quartz.