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Media outlets spent the past day or so trying to avoid broadcasting Game of Thrones spoilers after the first episode of Season 6 debuted Sunday in the U.S., but it looks like we needn't have bothered. You've all already watched it.

In what's become a time honoured tradition, TorrentFreak reported that yet again, Australians were among the most prolific pirates of the show's first episode on BitTorrent. Aussies made up 12.5 percent of those illegally torrenting the episode, it said, compared to 9.7 percent in India and 8.5 percent in the U.S. 

According to the outlet, more than 1 million people downloaded the episode via BitTorrent in half a day, although it admitted numbers could be off because of the differences in time zones.

The show is available in Australia via Foxtel, both through cable and its streaming service, Foxtel Play. Nevertheless, it looks like a lot of people would rather go hunting online.

In the venn diagram of Game of Thrones fans and enthusiastic torrenters, there must be a healthy amount of overlap. If this continues, the show could be on track to take out the crown for most pirated show of the year. Yet again.

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