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Police Arrest Four Men Who Leaked Game of Thrones Episode 4 Proving That Piracy Doesn't Pay

Aug 162017

Our favourite show ‘Game of Thrones’ is back with its 7th season and so is our obsession for watching it before everyone else. To avoid spoilers and ruin it for everyone else, the fastest option seems to be the pirated and leaked versions floating online. Well, when half the world is watching it, why shouldn’t we, right? But, ever wondered what happens to the source who leaks it? They get arrested by the cyber cell before they can even get to see the ‘leaked episode 6′. If Monday wasn’t bad anyway, it turned worse for these four men who saw the real life White Walkers aka Mumbai police, walk into their lives and arrest them for leaking an episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ online.

Mumbai Police Arrests People Who Leaked Game Of Thrones' Episode 4 © HBO

Three employees of Prime Focus Technology and a former employee have been accused of leaking the show’s fourth episode online. Reportedly, the complaint was filed by the company. It processes the series for online streaming service Hotstar and a Mumbai court remanded them in police custody till August 21. Yes, we are talking about ‘The Spoils of War’ and apparently the leak of this episode was separate from the HBO hack that stirred a storm on the Internet.

Mumbai Police Arrests People Who Leaked Game Of Thrones' Episode 4 © HBO

The company that is said to have the season’s airing rights lodged a complaint after they found the low quality video of the episode on the internet, before the official airing. They caught hold of the culprits because they saw the channel’s watermark on it. According to Hindustan Times, the people accused are Bhaskar Joshi, Alok Sharma, Abhishek Ghadiyal and Mohammad Suhail. They have been booked under section 408, 34 of IPC for breach of trust with common intention and sections 43 and 66 of IT Act for penalty and compensation for damage to computer and computer-related offences.

‘Game of Thrones’ has already become the most pirated show on television and has compelled half of us to wait for the leak, more than the actual airing of any episode. While, we are losing our sh*t over the leaked episode 6, please beware before sharing anything because ‘cyber cell is coming’.

Fan Theory Suggests Bran Is Actually The Night King And It's So Legit We're Blown Away

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Aug 162017

‘Game Of Thrones’ never fails to blow us away. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, that you’ve formulated enough number of fan theories to predict the course of the plot, the ‘Game of Thrones’ makers sweep the carpet from under you, leaving you gasping for breath at the twist.

Fan Theory Suggests Bran Is Actually The Night King And It's So Legit We're Blown Away © HBO

The latest in fan theories about ‘Game of Thrones’ has left us shaken, to say the least. The Three-Eyed Raven, who roams around in the body of a creepy Bran, hurling random half-baked visions at people, could possibly also be the Night King. Now before you shrug your shoulders and dismiss this, read the explanation that is so sound, we’d be disappointed if it isn’t true.

Fan Theory Suggests Bran Is Actually The Night King And It's So Legit We're Blown Away © HBO

So the theory says that Bran, in order to stop the Night Walkers once and for all decides to warg into the body of the Night King BEFORE he became the Night King! The Children of the Forest had chosen a human to turn into the Night King and Bran goes back into the past – yep, some major time-travel – to warg into the human who will become Night King.

Fan Theory Suggests Bran Is Actually The Night King And It's So Legit We're Blown Away © HBO

However, he is not able to stop the event from occurring and the human ends up as a captive of the Children of the Forest. Bran tries to escape the human body but is unable to do so before the Children of the Forest force a piece of dragonglass into the heart of the human. Bran is trapped in the Night King’s body.

Fan Theory Suggests Bran Is Actually The Night King And It's So Legit We're Blown Away

A conversation between Leaf and Bran in the show can be read in this context as a possible hint at what was coming. When Bran asks Leaf why the Children of the Forest created the White Walkers,

Leaf says: “We were at war. We were being slaughtered. Our sacred trees cut down. We needed to defend ourselves.”

Bran: “From whom.”

Leaf: “From you. From men.”

it is possible for a warg to get stuck into the body of the humananimal he warges into if they die. When the Night King changes form from human into a White Walker, Bran is forever trapped into his body. Perhaps this is the reason the Night Walker is able to touch Bran.

What perplexes us is if Bran indeed becomes the Night King, why will the White Walkers keep moving ahead? Why will they declare war on the Seven kingdoms? Wouldn’t Bran be able to control the Night King’s mind? Or maybe this is how the show will end, how the White Walkers will be stopped. And with the death of the Night King, Bran too will be dead.

Ali Zafar Gives An Impromptu Interview To A Fan On Twitter And It's Honestly So Adorable

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Aug 162017

Twitter has always been a great platform to interact with your favourite celebrities directly, but then also most people struggle to get a reply. And it’s not that common that a celebrity replies to your tweet to them, that too immediately.

But, it seems like it was Hira Hyder?’s lucky day. Hyder, a journalist, tweeted to Ali Zafar saying that the day she gets to interview him, will be the day her ‘career would be at its utmost brilliance!’

The day I score an interview with @AliZafarsays is the day my Journalism career would be at its utmost brilliance! #forevercelebritycrush