Officials raided the Pirate Bay's servers in Sweden in December, and the torrent site went offline until two weeks ago, when it came back under a new domain name. One of only a few legitimate torrent sites hosting the Game of Thrones leaked episodes online, the Pirate Bay only just resurfaced two weeks ago after two months - the longest outage it ever experienced. Torrents from sites like The Pirate Bay and private trackers made up. Someone – presumably the person who leaked it to the private tracker – then made the Game of Thrones episodes available for download via a number of public BitTorrent sites such as the Pirate Bay, KickA** Torrents, and RARBG, according to Gizmodo. About 76.6 of pirates watched Game of Thrones on unlicensed streams, while web-based downloads accounted for another 12.2. That night, all four leaked episodes had been posted to a private BitTorrent tracker called IPT. Either way, a 522 error is better than getting a 403 (forbidden) or 404 (page not found) error any day.Ī Reddit user found the Game of Thrones leak while visiting the series' subreddit, according to Torrent Freak. With winter fast approaching, the coveted Iron Throne is occupied by the cruel Joffrey, counseled by his conniving mother Cersei and uncle Tyrion. It is quite possible, and what is worse is that Pirate Bay's CloudFlare service is not working, either.ĬloudFlare is the website caching service Pirate Bay uses to keep visitors on their site even when it experiences downtime.Īccording to the CloudFlare FAQs provided on the Pirate Bay website, "error 522" is causing the outage, which means something is hogging server resources.Įrror 522 makes it impossible to tell if the site is experiencing a DDoS attack, or if it is simply overwhelmed with traffic from legitimate users downloading torrents. The cold winds of winter are rising in Westeros.war is coming.and five kings continue their savage quest for control of the all-powerful Iron Throne.
The question is whether yesterday's Game of Thrones episode leak online caused the Pirate Bay to go offline. This is where the problem lies for Pirate Bay, as the site was knocked offline yesterday.
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No matter where they came from, that the Game of Thrones episodes were leaked at all to torrent sites likely means that the already most pirated series in history, according to Torrent Freak, will bring a huge increase in traffic to the torrent sites.Īccording to Forbes, the Game of Thrones Season episode leak already saw over 800,000 downloads as of 1 p.m.