April 1st, 2013

Game Of Thrones Season 3 Premieres To Record Ratings, Piracy

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Everyone, it seems, is a Game Of Thrones fan. The fantasy series, which was spawned out of a series of novels by George R. R. Martin and adapted for HBO, just aired its third season premiere last night and a whole bunch of people were watching. The show touted its largest-ever live audience during the broadcast, which is good news. The bad news is that it also had more people pirating the show. → Read More

March 22nd, 2013

HBO’s Richard Plepler Weighs In On Game Of Thrones Piracy, Says ‘Maybe’ On Broadband-Only HBO

When TechCrunch attended the San Francisco premiere of Game of Thrones Season 3, we didn’t just ask the cast members about their smartphones. I also had a few minutes to talk to HBO CEO Richard Plepler, when I asked him about the show’s status as the most-pirated program of 2012.

“Well, look, it’s the good news and the bad news, right?” Plepler said. “The good news is that a lot of people want… → Read More

March 21st, 2013

Five Out Of Six Game Of Thrones Cast Members Prefer The iPhone To Android

TechCrunch was lucky enough to interview several of the Game of Thrones cast members before the San Francisco screening of its Season 3 Premiere. Since we work for a tech blog, we weren’t that interested in learning what they were most excited about when talking about the new season. Instead, we wanted to find out what each cast member’s smartphone of choice is. → Read More