On Friday 21 October the news was spread that the end of the first season of “La casa del drago” had leaked on torrent websites, just two days after its official preview on HBO and HBO Max worldwide.
Instead of keeping quiet, HBO decided to acknowledge the issue by releasing an official statement in which the chain confirms the leak and blames its international distributors. “We are aware that the tenth episode of ‘The House of the Dragon’ has been published on illegal torrent pages”says the statement, published via The Hollywood Reporter and other major media outlets. “It appears to come from one of our distribution partners in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East or Africa). HBO is aggressively monitoring to remove all copies from the Internet.”.
Despite HBO’s efforts to stop leaks on illegal download and streaming websites, the truth is that the episode is already in cyberspace and there is no going back. Spoilers in the form of photos or gifs circulate left and right on social networks such as Twitter or Tumblr, so be very careful. We advise you to silence hashtags and keywords, or more extreme measures: do not go online until you can watch the episode, which will air in the early hours of Sunday 23 October until Monday 24 October.
In the final episode, titled “The Black Queen”, we will examine Rhaenyra’s (Emma D’Arcy) reaction to Aegon’s (Tom Glynn-Carney) coronation and the aftermath of Rhaenys’ (Eve Best) attack. events that will set in motion the inevitable civil war for the throne.
It is not the first time
For fans of “Game of Thrones”, the leak of the season finale of “The House of the Dragon” smacks of déjà vu. And it is not the first time that HBO has suffered a hack that leads to the illegal publication of chapters of its flagship saga. The first episode of the prequel was also leaked and in 2017, a chapter of the seventh season appeared on the internet before its official preview. In that case, HBO attributed the leak to an outside customer who posted the episode by mistake.
Source: E Cartelera
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