Külföldi torrent oldalak Hbo Fights Piracy By Killing Off Review Discs!

Reviewers and pirates take note: HBO will no longer send out preview episodes on disc. Instead, the premium channel will set reviewers up with secure access to a streaming feed of the episode. Presumably, this will stop some of the lazier pirates out there, but definitely not all of them.

Last month, four episodes of the ridiculously popular series Game of Thrones found their way online, and each one was traced back to a review disc. “Amazingly enough, it wasn’t until just recently that a DVD was leaked online,” Quentin Schaffer, HBO executive vice president of Corporate Communications wrote in an email to reviewers. Writers who review TV shows like GoT sometimes get sent episodes ahead of time to help get reviews, posts and stories up as soon as possible. HBO still wants to assist in that way, but through different channels.

Game of Thrones debuted in 2011 and has been the most pirated television series every consecutive year. Some say that’s because of HBO’s status as a pay channel, though the network just recently launched the streaming service HBO Now as a subscription-based platform. While piracy seems to be part of the entertainment landscape moving forward, it seems wise of HBO to take as much action as possible to give viewers the opportunity to legitimately see new episodes as they come out with fewer roadblocks.

If you haven’t already downloaded the pirated episodes, Game of Thrones airs at 9:00PM on Sundays.