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Game of Thrones Faces TV's Army of the Dead
HBO's monster hit is plagued by piracy, but it might as well just live with it.
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In Westeros, you have to be ruthless, conniving or hard as nails to win the Iron Throne. Ideally all three if you want to hold onto it. Unlike real-life royals, a docile acceptance of one's lot in life doesn't really work.
Yet enlightened resignation is the best response right now for companies facing rampant piracy of their television shows. Just as retailers have learned to live with a certain amount of theft, the creators of mega-hit TV shows and the buyers of broadcast rights may just need to consider piracy as a cost of doing business in the internet era.