Posted on 04/12/2015 3:39:53 PM PDT by lulu16
Bad news today for HBO, which is attempting to marry the recent debut of their HBO Now streaming service with season 5 of Game of Thrones. As of last night, the first four episodes of the new season, nearly half of the ten total episodes, have been leaked online to various torrent sites.
After appearing online yesterday afternoon, the episodes have already been downloaded almost 800,000 times, and that figure will likely blow past a million downloalds by the season 5 premier tonight.
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However, I have a dinner party I'm hosting, so I'll make up my mind tomorrow on what to do.
Perhaps, Amazon Prime. Anyone have alternative ideas, other than HBO?
You can just subscribe to HBO Go now without actually having the TV service.
Thank-you. Are you going to watch it tonight?
What do you think of the pirating?
So how did “stupid” Comcast take back your premium channels? Please explain that. No freeper is a freeloader (I hope). Get what you pay for and pay for what you get.
Rarely does HBO/Cinemax series appear on streaming sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime.
Viva Torrents!
Or if BO had any sense, they would just release them all at once on HBO GO.
Like who has the time to watch these shows spoon-fed out one episode a week?
That is one thing I like about Netflix and their original series. Netflix puts all episodes for the season online at the same time. That is great for binge watching.
STARZ sometimes puts their ‘newest’ movies/episodes on the day they air on the cable channel in the evening.
There were things about this series I liked—love the Medieval Fantasy aspect…but I stopped. Couldn’t take the constant simulated sex acts. Is it still porn? And I read an interview with the author. He seems like a total jerk.
The show has not been available through Amazon prime in the past. We do not subscribe to the premium channels. Hubby orders the DVD when it becomes available, so we watch the previous season not long before the next season is getting ready to air.
Martin is what I would call a jerk. He’s a complete lib for sure.
Love his books though.
The first four episodes are all over the streaming websites. I you don’t mind low resolution, extreme compression, and viruses, it’s free. The quality is so low, I don’t think it will effect HBO — in fact, it may be good publicity. I’ve watched them, and couldn’t tell you a thing because I just use this stuff to keep me company in my shop. I think the show is generally about global cooling.
We negotiated with Comcast for HBO for years, there are always special packages but there is so much negation, that it is a pain to go through. We think that is the settled price, but it always seems they revoke it and we have to start the process over again.
I avert my eyes during the sex and the explicit violence, if I can sense when those scenes are coming up.
Which ones?
We watch Thrones on Amazon Prime
I plan on watching tonight along with Silicon valley afterwards. As far as pirating goes... I may have some downloading to attend to ;-)
Actually, I think the word for Season 5 is that it contains major deviations from the books. Martin is too slow, and the TV people are running out of story. His next book is out “who knows when”. So, now the novels and the series are somewhat separate affairs.
episodes are hd quality
Not quite. HBO Go is the brand-name for the on-demand streaming service tied to an HBO cable subscription. HBO Now is their brand-name for the streaming service that doesn't require a cable subscription, but as of now you either need to have an iOS device or get your broadband service through a particular provider that only operates in part of the northeast. (Or so it seems from reading their site -- though once you activate the subscription using the iOS device, you can apparently get their shows on any internet-connected computer with a browser.)
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