‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 4 Downloads: ‘GoT’ Piracy, Record Ratings Show No Signs Of Slowing Down

“Game of Thrones” Season 4 has been an incredible success so far for HBO. The series continues to set new ratings records while “Game of Thrones” Season 4 torrent downloads show no signs of slowing down either.

According to HBO, “Game of Thrones” Season 4, episode 7, “Mockingbird,” set a new series ratings record, drawing 7.2 million viewers for 9 p.m. and 8.5 million viewers after replays. The “Game of Thrones” Season 4 premiere, "Two Swords," drew 8.2 million viewers for the night and “Mockingbird” edged out episode 5, “First of His Name,” as the most watched “Game of Thrones” episode.

Record ratings are usually reserved for series premieres and finales, but “Game of Thrones” defies tradition as fans continue to tune in each week. Even with last week’s drop in ratings, “The Laws of Gods and Men” drew 6.4 million viewers, and was not far off from the 6.6 million the season premiere drew on April 6.

With three more episodes left in “Game of Thrones” Season 4, expect more rating records to be set by the series. As with the record ratings, “Game of Thrones” Season 4 downloads are keeping pace as more than 100,000 users have already downloaded “Mockingbird.” The Season 4 premiere had more than 70 different torrents available to download on Kickass Toressts with the most popular "Game of Thrones" torrent had more than 120,000 users downloading and sharing the file. Within one day, the "Game of Thrones" Season 4 premiere was downloaded more than 1 million times, reports TorrentFreak.

The most popular "Game of Thrones" Season 4, episode 7, "Mockingbird" torrent on Kickass Torrents has 124,323 users sharing and downloading the file, 112,016 "seeders" are sharing the file after completing the download while 12,307 "leechers" are currently downloading the torrent. The number of users downloading the latest "Game of Thrones" Season 4 episode is down considerably as the premiere had several active torrent files with tens of thousands of users downloading and sharing the file. The second most popular Mockingbird" torrent has 55,504, 46,769 seeders and 8,735 leechers, users downloading and sharing the file.

With the show's continued popularity, chances are the "Game of Thrones" Season 4 finale torrent will surpass the premiere in terms of numbers of downloads on Kickass Torrents. The success of "Game of Thrones" Season 4 led to HBO announcing its plans to renew the series for two more seasons.