Jeremy Clarkson’s new motoring show has become the most illegally downloaded television programme in history, figures suggest.
Amazon paid a reported $160m (£130m) for three series of The Grand Tour, which stars former Top Gear presenters Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, after Clarkson was sacked by the BBC in March 2015.
But figures from Muso, data analysts of the piracy market, suggest unprecedented numbers of people are avoiding paying £79 a year to sign up for Amazon’s online streaming service, Amazon Prime, and instead downloading the show illegally.
The data, shared with the Mail on Sunday, suggests the first episode was downloaded illegally 7.9m times, the second 6.4m times and the third 4.6m times. British viewers made up the largest percentage (13.7%) of the total number of illegal downloads.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... y-clarksonSo is that the law of diminishing returns because people are going "Damn, I've got to sign up to Prime and watch this in 4K!" or "This is crap, I'm not illegally downloading this any more..."