Game of Thrones latest season 4 episode “The Lion and the Rose” has broken the torrent swarm record for most people simultaneously sharing a file through BitTorrent, attracting more than 193,000 downloads the evening it went out.
By the end of the first day after its initial broadcast, roughly 1.5 million people had download the episode.
“A few hours after the second episode came online the Demonii tracker reported that 193,418 people where sharing one single torrent,” TorrentFreak reports. “145,594 had a complete copy of the episode and continued to upload, while 47,824 were still downloading the file.