‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘Rings of Power’ are the most pirated series of 2022

‘The House of the Dragon’ is one of the most watched series of 2022 and could be positioned as the most watched if we take into consideration All the views. Despite competing with other highly anticipated releases, such as “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, the prequel to “Game of Thrones” is the number one most pirated series, according to Torrent Freak. It follows, as it has even in streaming audience ratings, the “Lord of the Rings” prequel, though it is far from on its heels.

It’s no news that the new ‘Game of Thrones’ is topping the lists, because all seasons of the original series have had the same impact. This seemed to have ended in 2019 when ‘Game of Thrones’ ended, but the prequel returned the saga to its illegal ratings. “‘Game of Thrones’ hack lawsuit is unprecedented”said Phil Taylor, an analyst at MUSO, a company that measures audiences for unlicensed digital content, in 2019.

These are the 2019 data representing a huge overall increase in visits to websites with pirated content. As Torrent Freak analyzes, on the same day as the ‘Game of Thrones’ final season premiere, April 14, 2019, “the number of visits to pirate sites increased dramatically by 45 million more than the week before. This pattern was repeated with each successive episode, with the record being reached after the third episode”.

1.- “House of the Dragon” (HBO Max)

2.- “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” (Prime Video)

3.- ‘The Boys’ (main video)

4.- ‘The Knight of the Moon’ (Disney+)

5.- ‘Halo’ (Paramount+)

6.- ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ (Disney+)

7.- “The Book of Boba Fett” (Disney+)

8.- ‘Stranger Things’ (Netflix)

9.- ‘She-Hulk: She-Hulk Lawyer’ (Disney+)

10.- ‘Andor’ (Disney+)

However, it seems that “The House of the Dragon” is the only HBO Max content that has interested internet users at a high level, ever since the new seasons of ‘Euphoria’, ‘Westworld’ and ‘Killing Eve’ are not part of the list. On the contrary, The most compromised platform is Disney+, which is behind half of the series, despite its monthly subscription being the same as HBO Max: 8.99 euros. It should be noted that all productions distributed by Disney+ focus on characters from the Marvel and “Star Wars” franchises.

two years of absence

From the end of ‘Game of Thrones’ until the release of the prequel, it was only two years that the franchise fell out of the top 10, precisely because it had no new content. So, ‘The Mandalorian’ was the most pirated series of 2020 and ‘Scarlet Witch and Vision’ was in 2021.

For those who prefer more conventional media, both ‘Game of Thrones’ like ‘The House of the Dragon’ are available on HBO Max.