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The Game of Thrones season four finale \u201cThe Children\u201d has become the most pirated show in history, according to data from\u00a0TorrentFreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Legally, according to official US ratings, 7.1 million people tuned in for the final episode. However in pirate world, a few hours after the episode appeared online, Demonii tracker reported that 254,114 people were sharing that one torrent at the same time \u2013 the highest ever.<\/p>\n

Downloaders took interest in the HD torrent too, with 108,539 users downloading the 720p copy and 23,922 downloading the 1080p copy.<\/p>\n

Within 12 hours, the season finale has been downloaded 1.5 millon times, which TorrentFreak says is \u201cclose to 2,000 terabytes transferred in half a day.\u201d It also expects the download total to exceed 7.5 million in the coming weeks, which would make it the most downloaded episode of the year.<\/p>\n

Despite being legally available in most English speaking countries, illegal downloads of the show are still popular the US, Australia and the UK. However, Brazil and France topped the list with the most illegal downloads of the show, according to an\u00a0Irdeto report<\/a>\u00a0from earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Game of Thrones has form in this area. Back in May, episode \u201cFirst of his Name\u201d also surpassed 200,000 downloads of a single torrent at one time. In 2013, it was also last year\u2019s most downloaded TV show, with the finale \u201cThe Red Wedding\u201d being pirated 5.9 million times.<\/p>\n

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Source: Forbes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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