LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) -- The seventh season of 'Game of Thrones' has been illegally downloaded or streamed more than 1 billion times. According to a report from anti-piracy firm MUSO, the seven episodes of 'Game of Thrones' season seven each averaged 14.7 billion illegal views through September 3. Within the first 72 hours of its initial broadcast, the season premiere was illegally downloaded or streamed more than 90 million times. The season finale was illegally downloaded or streamed more than 120 million times within its first 72 hours. Right before the seventh season began HBO suffered a huge breach of their servers which saw full episodes of 'Game of Thrones' released early.

Source: Huffington Post September 08, 2017 03:45 UTC