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Many Indian Game of Thrones (GoT) fans got up at 3:30 pm today (April 15) to watch the first episode of the last season of the series. But instead of connecting to HBO's official broadcast partner, Hotstar, many have been frantically searching for free alternatives.
Between 5 am and 9 am, Google Trends sparked more interest for the related topic "Torrent File" than "Hotstar" in India.
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The ten most common queries (searches with the highest frequency increase) were for specific torrent sites such as DIRECTV (and its bad name "direct tv" ), ETTV and MkvCage. , or several generic searches for torrent downloads.
| Related Applications | Interest Rising |
|---|---|
| 1. direct television | + 800% |
| 2. ettv | + 700% |
| 3. directv | + 700% |
| 4. directv now | + 600% |
| 5. throne set s08e01 | + 500% |
| 6. game.of.thrones.s08e1 download | + 500% |
| 7. throne game season 8 torrent | + 500% |
| 8. game of thrones season 8 episode 1 download torrent | + 500% |
| 9. mkvcage | + 450% |
| 10. gameofthrones s08e01 torrent | + 450% |
The hunt for the last season of Game of Thrones on torrent sites is not surprising. After all, it's the most pirated show in the world. In 2017, four Indians were even arrested for broadcasting episodes of the show before it was broadcast.
The demand for torrent sites also concerned the GoT today. Google.
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"Game of Thrones accounted for 17% of all infected hacked content in 2018, with 20,934 users attacked, while it was the only TV show in the list that n & rsquo; Did not have any new episodes published (that year), "reveals a recent study of the Moscow firm. The first and last episodes are particularly affected by malware.
"Winter Is Coming", the very first episode of the series, was the one most used by cybercriminals. Released almost eight years ago, the question is whether the last episode "Winterfell" faces a greater threat.
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