'Game of Thrones' the Most Illegally Downloaded Show of 2013

According to piracy news site TorrentFreak, HBO’s "Game of Thrones" is the most illegally downloaded show of 2013.

The series’ season-three finale according to the site was illegally downloaded 5.9 million times, most within a week after it aired in June.

This is the second year in a row that the American fantasy drama television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss has taken the dubious honour.

AMC’s “Breaking Bad” came in a distant second; its finale has drawn a still-whopping 4.2 million illegal downloads.

Below is TorrentFreak's list of the shows with the most-pirated episodes:

1. “Game of Thrones” (5.9 million)
2. “Breaking Bad” (4.2 million)
3. “The Walking Dead” (3.6 million)
4. “The Big Bang Theory” (3.4 million)
5. “Dexter” (3.1 million)
6. “How I Met Your Mother” (3 million)
7. “Suits” (2.6 million)
8. “Homeland” (2.4 million)
9. “Vikings” (2.3 million)
10. “Arrow” (2.2 million)