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Game of Thrones, the most pirated show of 2013, started its fourth season two weeks ago and it’s already breaking records just two episodes in. TorrentFreak reports that “The Lion and the Rose,” the second of episode of the show’s fourth season, garnered the largest torrent swarm ever recorded on Sunday night. Nearly 200,000 users were downloading the same exact torrent all at once, breaking the previous record of the season three finale, which raked in around 170,000 concurrent downloads. Adding up all the active torrents, TorrentFreak predicts that the latest episode of Game of Thrones was downloaded illegally 1.5 million times during the first day that the file appeared online. Even if that number is marginally inaccurate, at this rate the