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Game of Thrones Pirates Being Monitored By HBO, Warnings On The Way (torrentfreak.com)
HBO is leaving no stones unturned in keeping Game of Thrones' piracy under control. The company is monitoring various popular torrent swarms and sending thousands of warnings targeted at internet subscribers whose connections are used to share the season 7 premiere of the popular TV series, reports TorrentFreak: Soon after the first episode of the new season appeared online Sunday evening, the company's anti-piracy partner IP Echelon started sending warnings targeted at torrenting pirates. The warnings in question include the IP-addresses of alleged BitTorrent users and ask the associated ISPs to alert their subscribers, in order to prevent further infringements. "We have information leading us to believe that the IP address xx.xxx.xxx.xx was used to download or share Game of Thrones without authorization," the notification begins. "HBO owns the copyright or exclusive rights to Game of Thrones, and the unauthorized download or distribution constitutes copyright infringement. Downloading unauthorized or unknown content is also a security risk for computers, devices, and networks." Under US copyright law, ISPs are not obligated to forward these emails, which are sent as a DMCA notification. However, many do as a courtesy to the affected rightsholders. The warnings are not targeted at a single swarm but cover a wide variety of torrents. TorrentFreak has already seen takedown notices for the following files, but it's likely that many more are being tracked.
...when you have a good show, people want to see it. Remain flattered, nothing to see here, move along.
HBO GO is only like $15/month, which in most of the first world is less than the value of the time you'd spend trying to find a pirated copy of every new episode before your co-workers spoil it for you.
I thought the point of that smelly onion router (SOR!) was to hid the krims' IP address. No!?
https://thepiratebay.org/search/game%20of%20thrones/0/99/0
I got two DMCA warnings a little over a year ago accusing me of pirating Game of Thrones, and I'm paying for HBO mainly just for that one show. I use BitTorrent, but I did not torrent Game of Thrones.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
I have no problems paying for something when it's easy to pay for that thing and reasonably priced. HBO and the cable companies are all off their rockers where I live, so pirating content is often the only solution available if I want to know what the hell my online friends are yammering about the next day.
I buy the GoT BluRays as soon as they hit the market (hey it's a great show) but I watch the pirate stream because that is SO much more convenient. Like way nicer. I buy every seasons.
If HBO gonna get up in my shit over paying for their material, maybe I stop buying the blurays.
It's no Sopranos, it's no Breaking Bad, it's no Wire.
It's goddam hobbits. Go to TV prison.
THANK you.
I started with the books over twenty years ago. I realized that there is no evidence for George R.R. Martin finishing them so I decided to stop being his bitch.
I don't know what has happened since the last episode I watched, and I don't care enough to find out. I'm just going to assume that Barclay blew up the Holodeck.
Randal: That look was so gay, I thought Sam was gonna tell the little hobbits to take a walk, so he could saunter over to Frodo and suck his fucking cock. Now that would've been an Academy Award-worthy ending.
Hobbit fan: Hey! Faggot! They're not gay! They're Hobbits.
Randal: And then right after the Sam/Frodo suck-fest, right before the credits roll, Sam fucking flat-out bricks in Frodo's mouth.
Hobbit fan: I swear... Fuck you...!
[Hobbit fan suddenly vomits. Randal runs to the manager's office, laughing.]
Randal: I made fun of The Lord of the Rings so hard, it made some super geek puke all over the counter. Where do we keep the mop and bucket so I can have Elias clean it up?
that be where we 'ang 'em.
You.
I imagine I'm the only person on the planet who's never seen Game of Thrones, and has no interesting in seeing it, pirated or not. But it is nice to see the lengths people will go through for their addictions.
Get a good VPN. That's what it's for.
The first octet of my ip address is 3 digits do it won't fit in their xx.xxx.xxx.xx template
If you want to watch GOT in Spanish and you don't have cable you are out luck as HBO now and HBO go do not offer it. Even the Spanish speaking viewers willing to pay are forced to go searching the Internet for other means to view the series.
I won't watch until after it becomes unpopular.
... once it's digitized, it's in the public domain. ~ © 2017 CaptainDork
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
In a random twist, I am actually watching this season of GoT via DVR with the wife in the living room, on a real television.
I posted a survey on my favorite torrent site to see if anyone there has received ISP notices. So far, no response.
How about you folks out there in /. land? Anybody received any notices for torrenting GoT?
Just did a quick google because I cant really use torrent freak as a source.. seems that HBO has been sending out DMCA Notices every year since 2012 for the Premier of Game of Thrones .. Seems like Clickbait Advertising to get people riled up and to get word out about the new season.. they probably get billions in advertising by every site talking about it.
Bingo. A real man like you drinks a beer while he beats his wife, none of that faggot TV or reading. If you're not jacking off to footballers while rebuilding a car engine you're not a Man.
Are they trying to make the show more desirable by doing this? Lol, it's not that great, IMO.
and you hit your cap how fast?
I have been paying for HBO Now through Apple TV for about as long as it's been around. I know it's possible to get it for free by doing it the nefarious way, but I tend to support things I believe in, and $15 a month for a service I believe in is quite fine. I tried the CBS streaming service when it first came out and I quickly discovered it was not worth it, so I don't pay for that (but I don't watch any of their stuff either), so like I said: As long as I think it's worth it, I'll pay for it. If it's not worth it, I don't pay for it, and I don't watch it.
Sarbonn's blog: http://www.sarbonn.com/blog
I just stream most of my shows these days.
"We have information leading us to believe that the IP address xx.xxx.xxx.xx was used
Really? That happens to be the IP address of my VPN provider.
Seriously, if you torrent anything, get a decent VPN provider. Makes things so much simpler. Be sure to pick one that offers a SOCKS proxy. If the VPN fails, then your bittorrent client is still covering your ass using the proxy.
Oh, and don't use Deluge. It ignored proxy settings for many, many years, exposing its users to law enforcement:
http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/...
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I don't even need to read TFTA.
Game Of Thrones has been a target of anti-piracy firm(s) for quite some time. HBO is funny in the manner that it talks about how fantastic it is to be pirated and at the same time has the single most aggressive anti-piracy strategy of any media. I'm not sure their usenet posts lasted even a day before having take downs targeted at single binaries. As far as torrents, I would not have touched them with a 100 foot pole or perhaps a thousand or so. I don't have any experience with their aggressive posture towards torrents because it violates my 365 policy on torrenting. I would imagine it is just as brutal.
Anyhow, word of the wise, avoid usenet and any VPN based in the US. If you have a private tracker then my hat is off to you. Otherwise, do what I do, pony up the 15$ on Amazon at the end of the season and binge watch for 30 days.
I've gotten too lazy to deal with all of this mischief and I tend to favor other hobbies now.
I invested the time to find a legal source to watch as I do every time a new season starts.
Again I found none. In 10min I was watching the first episode of season 7.
Geo fencing is a shame!
Once all seasons aired I will buy the collectors box of this cult classic.
If you can jack off to footballers while rebuilding an engine you're a friggin' mutant.
*laughs in VPN*
- Don't do what I do, it's probably not healthy nor safe. -
After all, it's not like having the content available just after release worldwide has helped their ad revenues...oh wait.
Offshore torrentbox and a VPN. Never get another copyright notice. Infringe at will.
More spam for the spamkiller to learn about.
What's for dinner?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'm curious to hear what you'd consider a wise use of time.
And then you can also inform me why it would be wise for me to use it that way. Because it's likely that I disagree.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Here, in the Netherlands, HBO has withdrawn its service, but you can stream Game of Thrones, a day later, IF you get triple play with the Ziggo ISP for at least 1 year AND a mobile phone subscription with Vodaphone. But wait, you're not done... you have to pay another â11.95 just for the privilege of their buying their "Movies and Series XL" package. So, you're in for at least â60 a month, just to watch GoT.
So, there you go, waiting for the stream to start, and what happens? Nothing. Misconfigured routing table in their network, so nobody can watch it, and somehow they manage to break access to a large part of the internet, including slashdot. This is the first time i can access this site since Monday morning.
Oh, and Ziggo is the largest ISP over here, after their merger with UPC... You'd think they'd be a bit more professional.
here you go HBO this is how scared i am.
https://youtu.be/qOgT9Ifw6Io?list=PLTZI0lSyXfpMGRzK195GOKEt-aHRB_2Wv
NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP! "No limitations, no boundaries, there is no reason for them."
This is still true
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
Don't give legal options for people to consume the media they want on the devices they want and you promote piracy.
I own a full Sky Q subscription I could watch it legally but I still torrented it (well sonarr downloaded it automatically), because I can then choose to watch it on what ever device I want to.
It doesn't matter how you justify it, you're pirating/copying content without paying. There's this huge love of free market so why don't you exercise it by not seeing said content.
I don't read AC
I can ignore shows like Game of Thrones and House of Cards now that we have real life geopolitical heroes like Julian Assange and George Webb. Who needs fake scripted politics when the real thing is so much scarier and needs your attention?
Killing off Tywin Lannister was the end of the series. Game of Thrones is just giving away the farm J.J.Abrams style because G.R.R.M. can't get off his fucking ass to finish it properly. It's going to lose its flavor soon as things get more and more rushed and incongruent with the original written storyline. Expect RoboCop 3 before this is over.
I get the shows mixed up sometimes, but Daenerys Targaryen was a Jedi, right?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I've lost count over the years of the number of shows I've downloaded, watched, and then decided was worth a purchase. I'm certainly not going to purchase a box set of something I've never seen before, and the networks are making *a lot* more money by having me purchase a set of discs than having a cable subscription.
In the specific case of GoT, I started getting the series on DVD, and because I'm OCD in that way, I'm not going to have half of them on DVD, and the other half on Blu-ray...I keep buying the seasons as they come out on DVD, then once the final episode's been broadcast, I'll also be buying the big all-in-one Blu-ray box set that is sure to come out. Compare that with...what, me not watching a show at all?, and thus not buying anything ever...?
Wow, ice zombies, dire wolves, incest, boobies, what more could you want? Pirates! I gotta get HBO one of these days.
...pirating will be a non-issue. I love GoT, and I *paid* HBO for their GO service, to be able to watch the episodes the moment they're out, to avoid any spoilers. What happens? The day of the premiere, HBO Go crashes and burns down for both the East and the West US Coasts, and all Latin American. To add insult to injury, they didn't release any official communicate until *after* 15 minutes of the begginning of the episode, suggesting to watch the episode on "pay tv". Had I wanted pay tv, I would have contracted pay tv! What did I do?, I found an "alternative" stream and watched the episode live. I dare anyone to call me a pirate, I had already paid for the service and they didn't deliver. It's not like they didn't knew the premiere would have massive demand, and prepare accordingly, I'ts been six freaking years!
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If HBO is seeding, isn't that basically giving people explicit legal permission to download for free?
lolololol
I bit the bullet and got HBO GO, available as a standalone app for México on the App Store, to use on my Apple TV.
I managed to see a couple of things some days before sunday... but guess what? On Sunday their servers had crashed miserably and there was no way to use the app at all. Apparently not here (México) nor LatinAmerica. So... I was left with no choice but to torrent it after it finished, and I managed to see the premiere just some 90 minutes after the original airing time.
I have already canceled the HBO GO subscription. Apparently last year they had exactly the same problem.
Did anybody else read this title as "Game of Thrones Pirates Being Murdered By HBO, Warnings On The Way" ?
For a minute there, I thought HBO was getting REALLY agressive about stopping this sort of thing!
I am not a sig.
Certainly wiser than bitching about those people anonymously on the web.
I've setup a private group to share the videos with a bunch of friends. Works great!
Its crazy that Game of Thrones pirates are being monitored by HBO, as so many people love the series: http://gameofthrones-1.yolasit...
I browse TPB (and others) via TOR.
I torrent using a locked down Linux distribution within a VM via an anonymizing VPN tunnel from a vendor that does not keep logs (yes, really - and even if they did, although they do not, my payments are also anonymous) of who did what.
That said, I also pay for several streaming services, including Netflix, so the torrenting is for the things neither of the services I pay for deem necessary to provide, and nothing else.
I feel neither threatened nor guilty.
I torrented the GoT premiere, since none of the streaming services I pay for provided it.
I have not received any warning letters, and I consider it highly unlikely that I will.
Lesson: Stop making exclusive deals. If you want the broadest paying audience, license your content to as many providers as possible. If you do, everybody prepared and able to pay for your content will pay for it. If you do not, sharing of your content by other means will happen, regardless of what you think and (try to) do about such sharing, and some of that sharing will be done by people who would otherwise have paid for it.