You may have already heard that 4 episodes of Game of Thrones (season 5) were leaked a few days before the airing of the first episode of season 5, but did you know the episodes were deliberately leaked?
HBO deliberately leaked the first 4 episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 in an effort to do the following:
1. Create buzz around the show by utilizing news media for free advertising.
2. So they could create free buzz for HBO's newest service "HBO Now", a new streaming service.
3. So HBO could track illegal downloaders in the USA for potential lawsuits - which is technically entrapment.
HBO claims the episodes were leaked via people in the media who had received screener copies of episodes for them to review and post reviews in newspapers, magazines, TV shows, etc - however that seems more like a cover story - a scapegoat - when their real intent was to deliberately create buzz for both the show and HBO Now, while simultaneously giving them an excuse to entrap Americans who download the show before the release of the first episode.
Fascinating don't you think?
And best of all nobody can prove who really released the first 4 episodes. Without proof it is basically a Schrödinger's Cat situation.
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