That said, Game of Thrones won its highest ratings to date in Season 7, so the piracy didn’t result in disappointing numbers for HBO.
Sure, the numbers would be higher if everybody who watched had watched via HBO or one of its streaming services, but Game of Thrones isn’t exactly a show that will get the axe due to low ratings courtesy of piracy.
The annual report of BitTorrent traffic (via TorrentFreak) places Game of Thrones at the top of the list of most-pirated shows for the sixth year in a row, which is a dubious honor considering all of the trouble with hacks, leaks, and illegal downloads in recent seasons.