Except it appears that the old line about people paying for HBO if they weren't being held ransom to a cable subscription doesn't appear to work. In response to the cord-cutter lament, the channel launched HBO Now, a $15/month streaming platform, but despite this, the Thrones episode Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken was torrented 3.5 million times in a single day. You can't even use the fact that there's a geographic delay between the show airing in the US and other countries any more, since season five was simulcast in 170 countries. Perhaps HBO better start threatening to bump off even more beloved characters unless people start coughing up more cash.