How do episodes get leaked

Simon Brew SimonBrew. Editor, author, writer, broadcaster, Costner fanatic. Now runs Film Stories Magazine. Skip to main content area. Well, there are a few theories. Due to briefly being unlisted and hidden, some episodes of the English dub of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf : Mighty Little Defenders uploaded by the series' official English YouTube channel were found by fans a few days before their intended release date. Once these episodes were privated until they were intended to come out, fans made copies of them early.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was leaked online via photos of each page four days prior to the release.

Stephenie Meyer's Midnight Sun , which was supposed to be Twilight from Edward's POV , had several chapters leaked online by one of her beta readers in She felt so betrayed over the whole thing that she scrapped the whole project and posted the leaked chapters on her own website. However, years later she finished the novel, and it was published in When teasing Survivor Dogs , HarperCollins' plan was to keep secret what animal the new series would be based on, so that it would be a big hyped-up reveal.

Fans discovered on HC's own online catalog a poorly-labeled image of a cardboard stand for bookstores, with the first book's art and the text "the time has come for dogs to rule the wild" across the top. They removed the image after fans began to spread it around. For Warrior Cats , as HarperCollins doesn't set strict embargo dates on the books, some stores sell them before the release date, and spoiler threads prior to release used to be a regular thing on official and fan forums.

According to one of the official forum's mods, it was legal and they'd allow such posts; it was just that if HarperCollins figured out which stores did it regularly they might delay shipments to that store until after the release date. Live-Action TV. Californication had its pilot leaked before the series made its debut. The premiere episode of Constantine was leaked 4 months before it aired. Several episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm , along with episodes of other HBO shows such as Ballers , The Deuce and Barry were leaked in late by a hacker who was trying to extort money from the pay cable channel, reportedly because they had access to internal documents and were using them as leverage.

Dexter suffered this a couple of times. The first 2 episodes of season 2 and 4, along with the last 2 episodes of season 2, where leaked before their original airing. Doctor Who : "Rose" , the first episode of the revival , was leaked by a CBC staff member months before its official release. Articles written at the time of the leak suggest that The BBC orchestrated the leak in order to build buzz for the series. Despite Steven Moffat asking for people to not reveal anything, one newspaper revealed spoilers from the episode, including the reveal of John Hurt as a new Doctor.

Averted during the 50th anniversary. When someone threatened to leak details about the mini-episode " The Night of the Doctor ", the BBC just went ahead and released the thing early. Interestingly, the leaked episode "Deep Breath" was a workprint copy that was in black-and-white, still retained previous Doctor Matt Smith 's credits sequence instead of Peter Capaldi 's and had unfinished effects.

The BBC later claimed that the breach which also included uncontextualized scenes from workprint episodes for the first half of the season was caused by someone mistakenly leaving the materials on a publicly-accessible part of the Miami server. With the subtitles for "Kerblam! The error was fixed after a few hours. Rather than use a picture from one of the episodes airing that night, they used a picture from the then-unaired episode "Everything Explorers".

In October , four episodes of EastEnders leaked a week early, spoiling plot points and character arcs before they had been properly set up in the show. An early cut of the Fringe pilot leaked online three months before the episode was due to air. The leaked version is nearly identical to the final version with mostly minor differences to the editing and special effects such as a darker version of the opening credits.

The only major alteration to the aired episode is an additional scene of Peter Bishop "questioning" a suspect. Game of Thrones : Four screener copies of episodes from the fifth season were leaked online weeks before their official airing. Notably, this trope was brought up when Alexander Siddig who played Prince Doran accused HBO of intentionally leaking the episodes in order to hype up fan demand.

The Season 6 premiere was accidentally leaked by HBO's Nordic division one day earlier than expected, and snatched up by enterprising fans just before the company pulled it off their streaming service. The main plot points of season 7 were leaked on Reddit in The network's India branch had an internal break-in midway through the seventh season, with a staff member leaking nearly all remaining episodes of the season save for the finale , as well as scripts and other information, for everyone to view well before their intended airdate.

This led to several spoiler-spreading troll campaigns on social media sites and caused HBO to film fake ending scenes for Season 8 so that no one could spoil it. Germany's HBO branch accidentally uploaded the second episode of season 8 to their Amazon service early.

The error was quickly corrected, but not fast enough to prevent trolls from watching it and spreading spoilers. While actual episodes didn't get out, detailed spoilers about the final three Season 8 episodes did leak in the weeks before they were due to air. Many fans dismissed them, believing the twists involved were too outrageous to happen, only for every single one to come true over the ensuing airings. An unfinished version of the season 3 premiere of Homeland got leaked about a month before it aired.

This is justified, since the onee-san auditions occur around this time. For his part, Holzhauer made light of the leak. Bandai's quarterly toy catalogues that include Kamen Rider and Super Sentai , meant for consultation by retailers only, always used to get intercepted by the fanbase around three months before their contents make it onto the shows.

When a new season of either show started, the catalogue was usually the first thing that had any information about it beyond the title, which gets leaked through trademark filings , and the next quarter's catalogue featuring the Sixth Ranger usually dropped just before the season even began. That's all 13 episodes, in full - though the streaming service corrected their mistake before anyone was able to binge-watch the whole lot.

Game of Thrones. Leaked 3 weeks early HBO's fantasy epic was the victim of piracy last month. The first four episodes of its fifth season were leaked on April 11 - just one day ahead of the season premiere's planned launch, but three whole weeks before ' Sons of the Harpy ' was supposed to air in the US.

In total, the four episodes were downloaded 32 million times across 18 million IP addresses. Leaked 1 month early The fictional CIA was seriously compromised back in September when an unfinished version of Homeland 's third season premiere, ' Tin Man Is Down ' - missing opening credits and some visual effects - was leaked.

Showtime later made an even bigger mistake when they aired an entire season that was mostly missing Damian Lewis. Leaked 7 weeks early 2. Leaked 2 months early Dexter Morgan's most persistent foe? Not the Ice Truck Killer. Granted I am not a US fan but a fan nonetheless, I do stick with the US schedule release dates for each episode, and like most fans out there, try to avoid the spoilers from those who have seen the early released episodes outside of the US.

If released episodes in other countries is your marketing plan, then that is perfectly understandable, after all Hasbro is a company and as a company, you need to make money, but remember this one thing, some fans will like the leaked episodes, while most will be smart, avoid the leaked episodes and watch the episodes on their appropriate release scheduale dates. As for those who have seen the early releases of Season 8, please for the love of Celestia, wait until after season 8's finale has released in the US, no spoilers at all, no matter how tempted you are to tell others, and those who haven't seen the released episodes, avoid running into any spoilers, that's the best I can say.

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