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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.
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 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.
that be where we 'ang 'em.
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.
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.
VPN provider gets bad name for cutting off clients, VPN provider loses business and makes less money.
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.
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.
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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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8 seasons, no more. The plans have already been released.
Too bad they are going to push out a bunch of spin-offs, though hopefully they will do ok as well.
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.
No. Anytime someone watches one of HBO's shows, and HBO doesn't get all the money for watching the show, means that somewhere, an executive is passed out in his chair, and there is still a small amount of sperm left in his balls.
Won't you think of that sperm, and make sure HBO gets all their money, so that a hooker can return to that office, and suck out that sperm? In between snorts of cocaine of course.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
We get it, you're special.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
FWIW, I've never watched GoT and never will, having suffered through the first 3 or 4 books until I came to the realisation that George RR Martin is a nothing more than a very long-winded troll taking cruel advantage of all of those who've never read I, Claudius.
If I ever meet him in person, I may well have to be restrained from punching him in the face.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
*laughs in VPN*
- Don't do what I do, it's probably not healthy nor safe. -
Or setup your firewall.
I don't have any issues with Deluge, though I use OpenVPN as a service for the VPN connection and SOCKS is just backup.
At last test, SOCKS worked fine through the proxy.
I periodically test my proxy and it haven't failed me yet.
- Don't do what I do, it's probably not healthy nor safe. -
Some of us have no way to legally see it, so torrents are the only option.
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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 watched half of the first season. It sucks.
Same, for me its main problem was it started at the same time as spartacus and that was shit hot! While spartacus was basically equal parts hardcore violence, softcore porn and devious politics, game of thrones was all people being mopey, foreshadowing and a whole lot of fuck all going on.
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Why should my Iranian VPN service give a fuck about a silly law from a silly country?
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."
...when you have a good show, people want to see it.
Well, GoT gets slightly "walking deaded": the previous season (6) showed what happens when the show and the books take (slightly) different paths, sensationalism takes over the depth and subtlety found in the books, at times (season 6). Not awful - yet. But let's hope season 7 will not ressemble a Marvel recipe.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
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
"We get it, you're "special"."
FTFY
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...
Some of us have no way to legally see it, so torrents are the only option.
I've got ways to see it but paying for HBO is just annoying so I don't bother (to pay, or see it). I gave up after the fourth season or somewhere near there.
I gave up on the TV series because I've read the books.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
The TV series has gone beyond the books. Didn't you get the memo?
We get it, you're special.
Different AC, here.
Actually some people really do have tastes/preferences that tend to be under-represented (or completely different from) the general public as a whole. "It's really popular so I probably won't like it" really is a good heuristic for this kind of person. It has a high success rate. It helps to increase one's personal signal-to-noise ratio. I feel that way many times, myself. Although I usually will at least check out an episode here and there, because the few times I end up liking the thing I tend to REALLY enjoy it. A few things really are popular because of their intrinsic merits and not because of hype and marketing.
The other AC just articulated it in a way you find distasteful. That's understandable. He or she put no effort into clearly explaining. And it's hard sometimes, not to be bitter when your own tastes/feelings/etc seem to never be represented. That's not really a claim of being special, at least not necessarily. I hope that makes sense.
Apologies - I thought HBO Now was available globally. I guess you'd need a VPN. From the Wikipedia entry:
HBO Now is only available to customers in the United States, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, certain U.S. territories, and a few more countries.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Wow, ice zombies, dire wolves, incest, boobies, what more could you want? Pirates! I gotta get HBO one of these days.
I stopped watching when that happened. Didn't want any spoilers for when the book is released. A few couldn't be helped like the Jon being dead or not cliffhanger but well the series had diverged a lot from the books by that point anyway so I guess everything is possible.
...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!
of course it's also likely that those with no legal way to see it also have nothing to legally fear from downloading it for the most part...
In a quasi related vein, I thought usenet was still the best place for DLs with minimal risk...
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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.
You know nothing.
Its crazy that Game of Thrones pirates are being monitored by HBO, as so many people love the series: http://gameofthrones-1.yolasit...
The TV series went "beyond" the books practically from the beginning, and no I did not subscribe to the hype, so I didn't get the memo.
To be honest I don't watch much TV in general, I have better things to do with my spare time.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
If you want a really good series (IMHO), try the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" by Steven Erikson. Something like 10,000 pages across ten books, so plenty to read, although it might take you 500 pages to feel comfortable in the world. Erikson is not one to hold your hand as a reader, and details in some books might not make sense until you've read an explanation in later books, but I'm okay with that. It makes gives the world a lot of added depth and makes it re-readable. And unlike other long series, he was able to create a new world and actually wrap up a story line. I lost hope that GoT would finish years ago, which is a shame: GRRM is a good writer.
I'm not going to claim the Malazan Book of the Fallen ended how I wanted it to, but it did end, was a heck of an adventure, and felt much more like a complete world than any other series I've read.
"Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." -Indiana Jones
Seems like it would be silly any way to go around their protections to pay them when they've chosen not to do business with you. Torrent away.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Excellent. Please give me your banking account access means, and I suppose your Slashdot password.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Woah dude! You're so rad!
i think they would do good to make this the last season and finish in beauty before it stops being in the top ten most downloaded (lol) , b/c thats when they actually will see a loss and probably blame it more cos its downloaded less in the top 20-50 section, still not seeing how these "copyright partners" actuallyu cost more than they deliver ? i wouldnt spend a fucking dime on it, id advertise with it "THE #1 most downloaded show" now at half price ? ... i think thats how it goes.
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... it must be a sapient thing, theres a bar here that hasnt turned profit in ... in i think over 20 years, every new owner lasts between six months (i think the minimum term or maybe a year) and two years ... i told the last one myself as she was cleaning out people who came there to drink... the spenders who like to get drunk, a bit rough round the edges but revenue in a gravelpit like rightwing naziville here. She all like O but i already have, we gonna turn this around to a good establishment, so in the end left with a few oldies who drink a coffee per hour ... contra-productive measures.
... this place isnt very business friendly ... meaning before i go off-topic, just like with that "we will make sure they pay US for the sales you didnt make (but no one says you would have in the first place) as a matter of principle you can pay us to tell them they can't do that cos its wrong even if the first rule of business would be to not spend money on pride unless it gets you more money back (where i come from such rules apply) yet even after 20 years that bar ALWAYS gets sold to the next guy or gal who rents it at exuberant prices, pays monthly, ends up earning less than they pay and have to file in the end ?
will it EVER get through that people who download would in most cases either not pay for it anyway if they had to or else simply cant afford to (the reasoning where if you can afford a phone you can afford subscriptions does not apply to us gutter snipes btw
if you want to be legalist about it : those companies are not law enforcement. The only way to see ips in a swarm is to be in it hence they break the law they try to enforce, thats a quick case but the united lobbies of the free world just dont fucking get it . Cost Expense = what does the lawyer team cost vs. how many of the downloads WOULD be sales if downloading was impossible ?
the artists get nothing, the company distributing gets nothing but the lawyer bill, the "copyright" TROLL gets the money
its a waste of time, its a waste of resources, the top ten on torrentfreak is ALWAYS the top ten most popular = top ten making money its free fucking advertising, GET YOUR ASS OUT OF THE SIXTIES and into the 2020s
jeezes fucking christ
she's gone
why is that ? why do these people keep fallng for the same moneypits ?
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?