5 ms·
You mean the same people that will rave about The Wire and Game of Thrones?
by placeybordeaux 13y ago
You mean the same people that will rave about The Wire and Game of Thrones?
- dublinben 13y ago>Game of Thrones? You mean the most pirated show of 2012 and 2013?
- eropple 13y agoAnd the one you can buy on iTunes or Amazon. And yet they still pirate. Worrying about pirates is counterproductive. Some might do it because it's easier, but I remain convinced that most do it because it's free. Trying to attract them is a sucker's game.
- AUmrysh 13y agoSome of us have HBO GO, pay a cable subscription, have Amazon Prime, and still pirate it. It's nice sometimes to be able to download it once and then not waste the bandwidth watching it again, especially when your ISP puts a bandwidth cap on all customers and calls you "data hogs". I also wholeheartedly support piracy (even of the things I make), so there's that.
- timje1 13y agoThe availability delay is significant for the other services. A large number of viewers live where HBO GO doesn't exist, and since the buzz around each episode hits the internet at the time of first broadcast, the rest of the world immediately pirates the show.
- Ma8ee 13y agoYes, you can buy it if you don't mind waiting 6 months or sometimes much longer.