HBO Exercised Copyright Laws to Remove 'Game of Throne' Spoilers from Youtube

By Dipannita - 11 May '16 15:40PM
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Producers of 'Game of Throne' and the members of the crew have been working overtime to ensure that nothing is leaked about the show. They have gone to the extent of using the copyright law to make sure that spoilers are prevented from revealing crucial plots of the show.

According to reports, networks have been aggressively involved in ensuring that no people are able to share the show online, in an attempt to discourage spoilers over the internet. This, however, is also taking down those fans who simply visualize their prediction of the future happenings without using any images or content from the show.

The producers have taken serious steps to negate any spoilers getting out to the fans before the official airing of the episode. Even members of the crew have stated that few of the shots were taken in complete secrecy from the people working on the show as well. The same aggressiveness, if not more, is prevalent in the online space as well as many fans have reported that videos on their prediction of the future have also been removed on grounds of copyright violation.

Amongst the predictions, few of these videos were made by a user named Frikidoctor whose predictions were quite accurate to the actual plot. As per his claims, he has connections with a source that is closely related to the making of the show. However, all those videos have been removed on grounds of copyright violation and visitors see an error page on visiting those sites.

Frikidoctor revealed that few of the videos which he had uploaded on YouTube did include proprietary images from the 'Game of Thrones'. But, the most recent video uploaded by him includes himself in the form of a Mexican wrestler predicting the future course of events in the show.

Understanding the essence of the show is spoiled in the process, the user agreed on not posting any predictions of the show for now.

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