As reported by Variety, the first episodes were available for downloading on Saturday - and by the morning of Sunday, four series of the fifth season already downloaded 778,985 users (almost a million!). The statistics provided Excipio to track data from "pirated" torrent sites.
Who is responsible for the "leakage", remains unclear, but the edition of Mashable claims that HBO provided access to new series of film critics and observers in advance, one of which could well share an unexpected "gift" with the suffering. Special watermarks on video that HBO could use to track, blurred, so to track the source "leakage" is impossible.
With Internet piracy, the creators of the Games of Thrones are perfectly familiar: In 2014, the HBO series became the most downloaded illegal content (over 8 million downloads). The world "pirate" record at one time set the second episode of the fourth season - 193,418 user "outed" on torrents at the same time a single file with this series.