Meanwhile on the TV side, the
site TorrentFreak found that for the third year
running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most
pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.
For a publisher like Viz, whose series can
run for many volumes, it makes sense to participate in a system that gives them something for each checkout, rather than have readers go to
pirate sites for their fix.