Thieving Australians Ensure “Game Of Thrones” Season Premiere Breaks Illegal Download Records

Game of Thrones season three may yet prove to be the most anticipated TV event of all time after the season premiere sparked rampant downloading that saw over 1 million BitTorrent downloads in less than a day.  Having been awarded the dubious honour as most pirated show of 2012, the season three sparked orgy of illegality indicates that 2013 will see much of the same, with those of us without the propensity to read great slabs of fantasy fiction, eager to see whether Joffrey finally gets the ass-kicking he deserves.

Keeping true to form with our convict past and rep as the world’s most prolific illegal downloaders, Australians punched well above their weight coming in third behind the US and the UK, securing 9.9% of the World Wide Web’s illegal Game Of Thrones season premiere downloads. Sydney and Melbourne were both hotbeds of illegal activity ranking 3rd and 4th in the list of cities, each accounting for 3% of downloads. It’s not all doom and gloom for anti-piracy crusaders, with 6.7 million morally upstanding Americans tuning in, indicating that this season could see Game of Thrones surpass True Blood as HBO’s most watched program.