MUMBAI: The season finale of US broadcaster HBO‘s ‘Game of Thrones‘ has set a new BitTorrent record with more than 170,000 people sharing an episode simultaneously.

Within a few hours after it was released hundreds of thousands grabbed a copy of the show via ‘The Pirate Bay‘ and other torrent sites, breaking the old record that ‘Game of Thrones‘ had set just a few weeks ago during the premiere of the third season.

In recent weeks the show has been shared millions of times online, but never before have so many people shared the same file.

Data gathered by TorrentFreak shows that, within 24 hours, the season finale has been downloaded a million times. This could increase to more than five million during the weeks to come. ‘Game of Thrones‘ will probably be the most pirated TV-show of the year.

Most downloaders come from Australia, followed by the US, Canada and the UK.