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At first this article reads like your typical anti-piracy screed. It rants about how 10x more people watched GoT illegally (confusing them with lost sales) and ends with how downloading movies can get your credit card stolen.

The middle of the article however, destroys the author's case.

Time Warner (owning company of HBO) CEO Alan Bewkes stated in 2013 how becoming the most illegally streamed show in history was “better than an Emmy” and that torrenting ultimately led to more paid subscriptions.

“We’ve been dealing with this for 20, 30 years—people sharing subs, running wires down the backs of apartment buildings. Our experience is that it leads to more paying subs. I think you’re right that Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world and that’s better than an Emmy.”

The CEO of Time Warner, who knows more about the finances of his own show than ForeverGeek writer Tom Llewellyn, championed piracy and said that it brought them more subscribers rather than nearly destroying the show as the article claims.

Needless to say, Tom forwent a rebuttal in favor of writing how you can get malware from downloading it...

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[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 144 points 1 year ago

Instead it was destroyed by two greedy fucks rushing the ending two seasons early so they could move on to their next cash grab flop!

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Yup. Money was never a problem for D&D. HBO was willing to give them all the time and money they needed. That is a very rare thing in entertainment.

[-] Ugetsu@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

What WAS their next cash grab though?

[-] illumrial@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

It was supposed to be Star Wars but they messed up GoT so badly they lost the Star Wars bid.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

What a shame that somebody else got the badly-messing-up-Star-Wars gig.

[-] yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

I believe they're doing 3 Body Problem next, another adaptation but for a Chinese sci-fi this time

[-] Ugetsu@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

That´s on my "want to read" list.

[-] MrSlacker123@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

Highly recommend it, finished it earlier this year and have been blown away by how much I enjoyed the series

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Its such handwaving bullshit, I wanted my money back at the end of the book.

[-] Ugetsu@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

You are aware that we are in a piracy group here, right? We don´t want our money back. Because we didn´t pay for it in the first place!

[-] Osayidan@social.vmdk.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Sometimes I pirate something that is so terrible that I still feel I'm owed compensation for the time I wasted watching it and the bandwidth I used to download it.

[-] TheAlbacor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I love those books. Good to know I won't have to watch the show.

[-] Misconduct@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I was gonna say lol. Damn, pirates almost spared us that ending. Too bad.

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