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The Walking Dead season 8 torrent blow - Illegal downloads now harder to find


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The Walking Dead season 8 is well underway, with episode three of the zombie saga shown in the US on Sunday and being broadcast in the UK tonight.

The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones are regularly listed as the two most torrented shows on the internet.

HBO’s fantasy epic has consistently been the number one show to illegally torrent these past few years, with The Walking Dead firmly in second place.

But fans who have been considering illegally downloading The Walking Dead season 8 may have found torrents are more difficult to discover.

TorrentFreak recently carried out research into how easy it is to find The Pirate Bay - one of the world’s most popular torrent site - on Google.

They discovered that, depending where you are in the world and what Google site you’re using, the search results vary dramatically.

In the UK if you search ‘The Pirate Bay’ on Google.co.uk the torrent site is tucked away on the FIFTH page of results.

You would expect to find the site corresponding to a relevant search term on the first page right at the top.

However, if you use Google.co.uk from a US-based IP address and search ‘The Pirate Bay’ the torrent portal appears as the first result.

TorrentFreak also tried searching for The Pirate Bay on Google.com from an American IP address, and it appeared as the top result.

However, when carrying out the same search using a UK IP address the torrent site appeared on the sixth page.

So if you’re a fan of The Walking Dead, depending where you are in the world torrents may be harder to find.

In the aftermath of the research, Google issued a statement saying they had not “done anything to purposely demote The Pirate Bay for searches on its name in the named countries”.

The search engine giant added: “A site’s ranking on Google Search is determined using hundreds of factors to calculate a page’s relevance to a given query, including things like the specific words that appear on websites, the freshness of content, your region, and PageRank.”

The news comes after Express.co.uk revealed The Walking Dead makers AMC had figured out a way to make torrents for the zombie epic harder to come by.

AMC have quietly been putting secret, invisible watermarks on episodes of their shows.

These invisible, identifying digital features are added to every AMC episode before they get distributed by forensic watermarking firm NexGuard.

The marks are added to help AMC identify and track down where leaks happen and who is responsible for them.

The digital watermarks, which AMC had first started using last year, are meant to stop any leaks before an episode gets broadcast.

Speaking about the anti-piracy measure, AMC’s CTO Steve Pontillo said: "It is paramount for us to protect our assets when they are at their most valuable.”

The AMC watermarking system is intended to make torrents harder to come by and stop any damaging leaks ahead of an episode’s first broadcast.

Earlier this year Game of Thrones was hit by a number of high profiles leaks.

Besides a number of draft scripts being leaked, full episodes of Game of Thrones penultimate season was leaked online before the air date.

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