HBO managed to leak the new Game of Thrones episode nearly a week ahead of its official airing date., Home Theatre
HBO managed to leak the new Game of Thrones episode nearly a week ahead of its official airing date. HBO, in the midst of a crackdown on piracy problems and an ongoing battle with hackers holding them to ransom, has seemingly been responsible for a leak of next week’s episode. Season 7 episode 6, « Death is the enemy » appeared online thanks to over-eager uploading by HBO Spain to its subscription HBO Go service. The episode was then pulled within the hour but, as we all know how the internet works, that was long enough for it to spill out into the wider internet. Within minutes of the video going live, Reddit user Kingrdgz stuck up a screenshot in subreddit (lots of spoilers here!) . Kingrdgz also posted from the leak, which only a sadist who loves spoilers would willingly watch. Naturally, all links that lead back to the leaked video being hosted online have all been deleted as HBO desperately tries to stem the flow of the new episode online. This isn’t the first time HBO has managed to leak an unaired episode of itself. Last year HBO Nordic managed to put out Season 6 Episode 5 « The Door » onto HBO’s on-demand video service HBO Go. The episode was available to watch in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland a whole 24 hours before it aired in the US. At the time, managed to grab a screenshot of the HBO Nordic interface showing the episode ready to be watched. In both instances, I imagine someone has probably had a stern telling off for messing up so spectacularly. But at least the HBO hackers can’t hold this unreleased episode against them.
