Game of Thrones is most pirated show of 2012 with 25 million downloads
Monday, May 14, 2012 at 2:42PM 
Winter is Coming down the torrent sites as HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated TV show of 2012. The second season of the popular show began early April. It has been tracked by Big Champagne which revealed that the show has been downloaded 25 million times with a peak of 2.5 million downloads a day.
Game of Thrones, which is based on George R. R. Martin's sword and sorcery epic Song of Fire and Ice series of books.
Being an HBO-exclusive series, Game of Thrones is accessible only to cable subsribers and HBO/Go users.
"This is absolutely a reaction to the show’s not being available elsewhere online," explains Robinson. "It’s a very tricky game trying to create this kind of scarcity," explained John Robinson, a senior media analyst with Big Champagne in a report from TGDaily.com.
Source: TG Daily