{"id":654814,"date":"2013-04-26T21:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=467584"},"modified":"2013-04-26T21:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T01:45:01","slug":"american-diplomat-begs-australians-to-halt-game-of-thrones-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654814","title":{"rendered":"American diplomat begs Australians to halt Game of Thrones piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/26\/australia-game-of-thrones-piracy-criticism-467584\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/tyrion_joffrey_lancel.png?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Australia Game Of Thrones\" title=\"Australia Game Of Thrones\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>America&#8217;s ambassador to Australia wants the Aussies to act more like the Lannisters and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/google-fiber-hbo-443722\/\">pay their debts to HBO<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/breaking-news\/us-ambassador-jeffrey-bleich-pleads-australia-stop-pirating-game-of-thrones\/story-e6frfkp9-1226629324212\">Australia&#8217;s <em>News.com<\/em> reports<\/a> that American ambassador Jeffrey Bleich has castigated Australians for being &#8220;some of the worst offenders with among the highest piracy rates of Game of Thrones in the world.&#8221; Bleich described the large-scale <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/piracy\">piracy<\/a> of Game of Thrones as an &#8220;epic theft by online viewers around the world&#8221; and said that fans of the show had no excuse for illegally streaming it because &#8220;stealing is stealing.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/hbo\">HBO<\/a> programing president Michael Lombardo <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/hbo-online-piracy-analysis-408449\/\">has previously said that he sees the widespread piracy of Game of Thrones as a &#8220;compliment&#8221;<\/a> that has actually helped the company sell more DVDs.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/DZDB683RXSU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s ambassador to Australia wants the Aussies to act more like the Lannisters and pay their debts to HBO. Australia&#8217;s News.com reports that American ambassador Jeffrey Bleich has castigated Australians for being &#8220;some of the worst offenders with among the highest piracy rates of Game of Thrones in the world.&#8221; Bleich described the large-scale piracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}