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You Saw This Coming of the Day: Game of Thrones Premiere Downloaded Over 1M Times

With more than 4.2 million downloads per episode, Game of Thrones was the most pirated television show of 2012. However, less than 24 hours after the HBO epic fantasy show’s third season premiere, TorrentFreak reported the episode had already been downloaded more than a million times, with one torrent having more than 160,000 simultaneous connections. No torrent has had that many connections since September 23rd, 2008, when more than 144,000 people downloaded the third season premiere of Heroes at once. 

TorrentFreak also broke down the locations of the pirates, finding that Australia had the highest piracy rate while London had the highest concentration of pirates amongst major cities. Despite the massive amounts of downloads, the television premiere saw 6.7 million US viewers, despite airing against The Walking Dead’s season finale.

Source: theverge.com

MPAA chairman Chris Dodd threatens to cut funding to US politicians over SOPA failure

“Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake,”

This is an incredible statement from a former Senator who is chairman of the MPAA and is one year away from being eligible to directly lobby the government. 

CrunchFund partner MG Siegler has harsher words to say about Chris Dodd.

More on Chris Dodd’s statement.

MPAA chairman Chris Dodd threatens to cut funding to US politicians over SOPA failure

Fighting Content Piracy

From Jakarta Globe:

Business models should be based on customer demand and an understanding of what is technically feasible – not a desire to maintain existing models or cash flows. In other words, you need to adapt the map to the terrain – you cannot change the terrain to suit the map.

Fighting Content Piracy

IDC: $1.32 billion worth of pirated software in Indonesia

Software piracy in Indonesia went up in 2010 according to a study by IDC. The research claimed a record 87 percent of applications installed on computers in Indonesia are pirated.

This 1 percent increase over 2009 figures actually caused a significant increase in monetary losses to software companies from $886 million to $1.32 billion. In 2003 the losses amounted to a relatively small $157 million.

IDC: $1.32 billion worth of pirated software in Indonesia