The season 7 premiere went live on the service at am, and some — including this correspondent — were lucky enough to watch the full episode without a single issue. At this point, we've to surmise that the Old Gods and the New were keen to read our recap of the season 7 premiere.
If we're being serious, it's possible that Hotstar's servers were unable to cope with the demand. It's a problem streaming companies often run into, as they underestimate the traffic load.
HBO itself has been on the receiving end of this in previous years, and it happened on Sunday night too, with the premiere momentarily taking down the HBO website in the US. Ahead of season 7 of Game of Thrones, Hotstar campaigned pretty aggressively against torrents, promising to get you the episode ahead of the torrents.
Ironically, owing to these technical problems, many die-hard fans were forced to fall back on torrents anyway. Of course, if being first matters more, Hotstar will be of little use since it doesn't have simulcast rights in India.
The season 7 premiere first appeared on torrent search engines around am, which is 15 minutes after the episode began on HBO in the US, and 45 minutes before it became available on Hotstar, even without the glitch. Game of Thrones, of course, is the most pirated TV show in history. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hotstar was temporarily down for some users Game of Thrones traffic likely caused most of the problems Hotstar had promised to deliver GoT S07E01 before torrents.
Hotstar on its 'before torrents' Game of Thrones promise In a statement to Gadgets , Hotstar confirmed the service faced some problems earlier in the day, but said that it was "fully up now". Akhil Arora Email Akhil. Best Deals of the Day ». Tech News in Hindi. The vast majority of those illegal views came from the relatively new torrent-based streaming sites that have appeared over the past couple of years 77,, to be exact, with both public and private torrent trackers making up the majority of the remainder 8,, and , respectively.
Interestingly the ever popular Usenet is not included in the count at all, so the number will obviously be even higher than the 90 million figure being thrown around.
Direct download sites apparently account for 4,, downloads, according to the report. The numbers come courtesy of piracy monitoring firm MUSO, although its stats have been questioned because of the way they are collected.
United States of America: 15,, United Kingdom: 6,, Germany: 4,, India: 4,, Indonesia: 4,, Philippines: 4,, Canada: 3,, France: 2,, Turkey: 2,, Vietnam: 2,, Australia: 2,, Russian Federation: 2,, Netherlands: 1,, Brazil: 1,, Malaysia: 1,, Now to see what kind of numbers episode two manages to pull in!
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