HBO’s “
” has taken over the Internet … again.
While Sunday’s shocker-heavy “purple wedding” episode was
— especially given that night’s
— it excelled at uniting the Internet pirates.
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“The latest episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ has broken the record for the most people sharing a file simultaneously via BitTorrent,”
reports Ernesto Van Der Sar, founder of copyright piracy news site TorrentFreak
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. “More than 193,000 people shared a single copy [Monday] evening, and roughly 1.5 million people downloaded the episode during the first day.”
This large number of users on a single file beats out the previous record holder … the “Game of Thrones” season three finale.
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