{"id":650150,"date":"2013-04-02T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T18:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=223450"},"modified":"2013-04-02T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T18:49:17","slug":"game-of-thrones-renewed-for-4th-season-following-massive-success-of-the-season-3-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650150","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones Renewed for 4th Season Following Massive Success of the Season 3 Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that should surprise absolutely nobody, HBO has officially announced that the hit fantasy series <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> will be back for a 4th season. Congratulations, this means that you can keep torrenting the latest from the realm well into 2014. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;#GameofThrones is renewed for a fourth season. RT &#038; share this update with your friends across the realm,&#8221; tweeted HBO&#8217;s official <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> Twitter account this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Before today, there was technically a doubt as to whether or not HBO would pick up the show for another season. Technically. The show has been a huge success for HBO, and is one of the network&#8217;s most-watched shows (along with <em>True Blood<\/em>). <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23GameofThrones\">#GameofThrones<\/a> is renewed for a fourth season. RT &amp; share this update with your friends across the realm. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/grFUXaBQY9\" title=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/cgh7ze\">twitpic.com\/cgh7ze<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Game Of Thrones(@GameOfThrones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameOfThrones\/status\/319136650292760577\">April 2, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>4.4 million viewers tuned in for Sunday night&#8217;s season 3 opener, which is a couple hundred thousand more than tuned in for the season 2 finale &#8211; and even more than watched the season 2 opener. <\/p>\n<p>But that 4.4 million number isn&#8217;t really representative of everyone who has watched the <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> premiere in the past few days. <\/p>\n<p>Today we learned that the season 3 premiere <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/game-of-thrones-premiere-broke-torrent-records-2013-04\">broke BitTorrent records<\/a>. In just a few hours after the first torrent of the show was uploaded, 163,088 people were sharing the single torrent &#8211; 110,303 actively sharing and 52,786 still downloading. That broke the previous record of 144,663 peers on a single torrent set after a <em>Heroes<\/em> season premiere. TorrentFreak estimated that over 1 million people had already downloaded the season 3 premiere. So your 4.4 million is looking more like 5.5 million and maybe even more who have actually watched the show since Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>With numbers like this, <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> is well on its way to reclaiming the distinction of the most pirated show around &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/most-pirated-shows-of-2012-includes-game-of-thrones-dexter-2012-12\">an honor the show took in 2012<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And some at HBO couldn&#8217;t really care less. HBO programming head Michael Lombardo recently said that <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> piracy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/hbo-game-of-thrones-piracy-a-compliment-didnt-hurt-dvd-sales-2013-04\">really more a compliment than a threat<\/a>, and that it surely didn&#8217;t hurt DVD sales. He made a point to say that HBO still doesn&#8217;t support piracy of its content (obviously), but that they &#8220;haven\u2019t sent out the <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_qvQ7OM7bbk:rID14rG5UaA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_qvQ7OM7bbk:rID14rG5UaA:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=_qvQ7OM7bbk:rID14rG5UaA:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_qvQ7OM7bbk:rID14rG5UaA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_qvQ7OM7bbk:rID14rG5UaA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=_qvQ7OM7bbk:rID14rG5UaA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_qvQ7OM7bbk:rID14rG5UaA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_qvQ7OM7bbk:rID14rG5UaA:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=_qvQ7OM7bbk:rID14rG5UaA:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/_qvQ7OM7bbk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that should surprise absolutely nobody, HBO has officially announced that the hit fantasy series Game of Thrones will be back for a 4th season. Congratulations, this means that you can keep torrenting the latest from the realm well into 2014. &#8220;#GameofThrones is renewed for a fourth season. 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