It would be fair to assume that just about every last person on Earth with access to a TV screen of some description watched the latest episode of Game Of Thrones.
Just from the amount of reviews, long-reads, theories, Easter Egg collections, dead-pools and plain, old-fashioned Twitter reactions, if you didn’t watch the Season 7 premiere, you might have felt like you were the only person on Earth not to do so.
We can confirm (kinda) that you weren’t alone though, as it was only (“only”) viewed about 106 million times.
However, of that number, only (again, “only”) about 16 million of those were actual legal views on HBO alone – the viewing figures from Sky Atlantic or other legitimate outlets have not yet been released, which will actually make that 106 million number a lot higher again.
So that would mean over 90 million views were from illegal sources, with the Business Insider claiming that almost 78 million of those were from pirated streaming services.
Nationally, the biggest portion of the total illegal views came from the United States, with over 15 million viewings there alone, but the UK came second, with over 6 million views not coming from legal sources. No word on Ireland figures, but we’re sure nobody here watched it illegally, right?
Right.
