The entertainment juggernaut that is Game of Thrones has added another 'honour' to its awards belt, scooping this particular prize for the fourth year in its five-season run.
But it's not an Emmy, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild trophy - it is the somewhat less-coveted title of most pirated show of the year. Again.
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TorrentFreak reported that season five of the George R R Martin-penned fantasy once again beat competition from US heavyweights The Walking Dead and The Big Bang Theory, which ranked second and third in the illegal download chart.
The nail-biting finale to Game of Thrones' most-recent series, 'Mother's Mercy' - which left Jon Snow's fate hanging in the balance - was downloaded around 14.4 million times via BitTorrent. More than half of the downloads happened in the week after the show first aired.
That same episode saw Game of Thrones break piracy records when 1.5 million people downloaded the instalment in just eight hours after the show aired.
HBO had tried to tackle pirating by airing season five episodes on the same day internationally, so global audiences didn't have to seek out torrents in the weeks before it aired in their country.
But with the first four episodes leaking online before they could air, and the wild speculation (and indefensible spoilers from some quarters of the internet) that followed the finale, it seems the cable channel was fighting a losing battle.
