Just saw this in a GoT page & decided to share...

AUN KHAN made a post asking for any free online streaming site for GoT...

It didn't go down well with a lot of GoT fans, but this particular comment by JJ LO & subsequent reply by SUNIL REDDY caught my attention
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Read below....

JJ LO's comment:

ILLEGAL STREAMERS! No wonder HBO can't make a profit off of GoT and had to end it early...

SUNIL REDDY's reply:
The average cost per episode is around $6 million. The Battle of Blackwater Bay episode cost around $8 million. So for a season having 7-10 episodes, we are looking around at a budget of $60 million- $70 million. So that’s the expenditure of HBO per season of The Game of Thrones.
Now for the income, HBO subscription charges are about $10 -15 per subscription per month. According to the stats around 30–40 million people are subscribed to it, so that makes the monthly income of HBO around $300 million to $400 million and that’s just the subscription income. Each season of GoT runs for 10 weeks, which is about 2 and a half months. Therefore you require at least 3 months subscription to watch it. That makes the income $900 million to $1.2 billion.
This doesn't even factor in the merchandise / DVD's etc that is sold .
Oh and before you rant off on piracy . Yes Piracy does happen and HBO doesn't make money on pirated content, but according to HBO, it helps them in promoting the show as the fans may not buy the episodes, but they will surely buy the merchandise.