Game of Thrones opener becomes most pirated show

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The new season of Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on Sunday night, giving the US pay-TV channel an instant 4.4 million viewers, rising to 6.7 million once two later airings are consolidated into the figures.

Antik unveils first BitTorrent certified STB

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Antik Technology, a Slovakia-based manufacturer of IPTV devices, has begun selling the FullHD Juice Mini the first BitTorrent Certified set-top box in the world.

BitTorrent to start testing live P2P

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BitTorrent has just posted a call for broadcast engineers to help with the building of BitTorrent Live.

BitTorrent connects to 20 smart TVs

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BitTorrent has reached deals with 20 CE manufacturers, bringing both legal and pirated content into the living room.

BitTorrent first for Antik

The Slovak IPTV solution provider Antik Technology and BitTorrent have announced the first BitTorrent certified set-top box in Antik’s product line Juice.

Top 10 most pirated US TV shows unveiled

With 3,620,000 downloads per single episode, Dexter has the honour of becoming the most pirated TV-show of the year, according to TorrentFreak’s annual review of the most-pirated entertainment titles.

Avatar tops illegal download list

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Netflix recently published a list of the ten most rented movies of all time and this got the people at the TorrentFreak web site thinking; what are the most downloaded movies on BitTorrent?

More than 50 million BitTorrent users a day

MIPTV 2010 – CANNES. New York based Jumpwire Media has announced the launch of its content monitoring system, called Torrent Tracker Reports.

Most pirated TV shows of 2009

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Heroes is the most illegally downloaded TV-show, with over 6 million downloads for a single episode, according to a Top 10 published by website Torrentfreak.