HBO has won the award few may want to accept with the most pirated show of 2013.
HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ is the most pirated TV show of the year for the second year in a row beating AMC’s ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ which ranked second and third.
reports the HBO series Game of Thrones easily topped the list after the Season 3 finale was downloaded 5.9 million times — half a million more than the 5.4 million viewers that tuned in to watch the episode on television.
“Game of Thrones’ previously beat their own piracy record last June when over 171 thousand people shared the HBO series Season 3 finale.
HBO programming president commented on being the #1 show as a ‘compliment of sorts’.
Here are the top 10 most-pirated TV shows of 2013:
1. “Game of Thrones” (5.9 million)
2. “Breaking Bad” (4.2 million)
3. “The Walking Dead” (3.6 million)
4. “The Big Bang Theory” (3.4 million)
5. “Dexter” (3.1 million)
6. “How I Met Your Mother” (3 million)
7. “Suits” (2.6 million)
8. “Homeland” (2.4 million)
9. “Vikings” (2.3 million)
