Grand Tour pirated
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 1:52 am
The Grand Tour, Amazon's big-budget reboot of Top Gear, has become the most illegally downloaded program in history, according to figures from piracy data analysts, Muso.
The first episode of the program, featuring former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, was pirated 7.9 million times, according to data shared with the UK's Mail On Sunday.
Its second and third episodes were also heavily pirated at 6.4 million and 4.6 million illegal downloads, respectively.
The news will be distressing for Amazon Prime Video, who had reportedly invested $250 million into the series over a proposed three seasons, in a bid to compete globally with rivals Netflix.
"It is off the scale in terms of volume," Chris Elkins, Muso's chief commercial officer told the Mail, noting that the loss of revenue in Britain alone – home to the largest number of the show's piraters, 13.7 per cent of total culprits – could total £3.2 million ($5.4 million).
The dubious record had long been held by pirate-favourite Game Of Thrones, but those figures have gone the way of Ned Stark's head.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv- ... t8w1x.html
