4 arrested in India after ‘Game of Thrones’ leak
The wildly popular fantasy drama is already the most pirated show on television and has been bedevilled by repeated leaks of episodes before they air.
According t o police, t hree of the accused work for Prime Focus Technologies, a Mumbai-based company that processes the series for Indian streaming website Hotstar. The fourth is a former employee. The l eaking of the episode on OSCAR-WINNG Emma Stone capped a perfect 12 months on Wednesday as she knocked Jennifer Lawrence off the top spot on Forbes’ 2017 list of the world’s highest-paid actresses.
Stone, 28, who won best actress for her role as a struggling performer in “La La Land,” made $26 million in pre-tax earnings in the year up to June, according to the magazine’s annual chart.
“Friends” star Jennifer Aniston, 48, also leapfrogged Lawrence, grabbing t he runner-up spot with earnings of $25.5 million, boosted by numerous endorsement deals across the world.
Lawrence’s $ 24 million was enough for third spot but a shadow of the 27-year-old’s earnings in the last Forbes list.
The star, who took the August 4, titled “The Spoils of War,” was separate from a recent hack on HBO. That hack included the theft of proprietary information, such as programming.
“We received a complaint from Prime Focus Technologies regarding the leaking of episode 4, series 7,” Akbar Pathan, deputy commissioner of police in the Mumbai cyber crime unit, told Reuters. best actress Oscar for 2012 comedy-drama “Silver Linings Playbook,” topped the 2016 chart for a second successive year with $46 million.
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“In the investigation it was revealed that four persons were involved.”
The four have been charged with criminal breach of trust and computer- related offences. They appeared in court and were remanded until August 21.
Emmy Award- winning “Game of Thrones,” which has a huge following in South Asia, is distributed in India by Star India, a subsidiary of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. ( Reuters) Kunis – on $ 18 million and $ 15.5 million respectively -- rounded off the world’s five highest-paid actresses.
The top 10 – also including Emma Watson, Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, Julia Roberts and Amy Adams – made a combined $ 172.5 million, down 16 percent from last year’s $205 million total, said Forbes. ( AFP)