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HBO Tells Brooklyn Bar to Stop Showing Game of Thrones

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The most pirated television show online is no longer welcome to be screened at a Brooklyn bar.

Videology, a bar and screening room in the borough’s Williamsburg neighborhood, was told by HBO to stop screening the hit show on Sunday nights, which it has done for the past two years. It’s the first time the establishment, which also screens Mad Men, has been asked to stop showing a particular program, bar co-owner James Leet told the Village Voice. He said it was unfair that only his bar was targeted when many others the area show the same program.

HBO reportedly told Leet that its content can’t be shown in a public setting, a decision that came in the wake of the recent leak of this season’s first four episodes.

“We’re sorry that our fans will not be able to see it in the future here,” Leet added, noting that some bar-goers had even shown up in costume. “We know they really enjoyed it, and we’re sorry we can’t do that for them anymore.”

[Village Voice]

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Maisie Williams as Arya Stark. Macall B. Polay—HBO
Michael McElhatton as Roose Bolton, Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton and Elizabeth Webster as Walda Frey.Helen Sloan—HBO
Conleth Hill as Varys and Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister. Helen Sloan—HBO
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen.Helen Sloan—HBO
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Indira Varma as Ellaria Sand and Deobia Opaeri as Areo Hotah. Macall B. Polay—HBO
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark and Aidan Gillen as Littlefinger. Helen Sloan—HBO
Kit Harington as Jon Snow, Stephen Dillane as Stannis Baratheon and Liam Cunningham as Davos Seaworth.Helen Sloan—HBO
Natalie Dormer as Margaery Tyrell and Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister. Helen Sloan—HBO
Alexander Siddig as Doran Martell. Macall B. Polay—HBO
Carice van Houten as MelisandreHelen Sloan—HBO
Kit Harington as Jon Snow. Helen Sloan—HBO
Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne and Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth.Helen Sloan—HBO
Dean-Charles Chapman as Tommen Baratheon and Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister.Macall B. Polay—HBO
Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane. Helen Sloan—HBO
Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister. Helen Sloan—HBO
Jonathan Pryce as the High Sparrow.Macall B. Polay—HBO
Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister and Ian Beattie as Meryn Trant.Macall B. Polay—HBO
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister and Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister.Helen Sloan—HBO
Kit Harington as Jon Snow and Ciaran Hinds as Mance Rayder.Helen Sloan—HBO
Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Tyene Sand.Macall B. Polay—HBO
Jessica Henwick as Nymeria Sand.Helen Sloan—HBO
Keisha Castle-Hughes. as Obara Sand.Helen Sloan—HBO
Nell Tiger Free as Myrcella Baratheon and Toby Sebastian as Trystane MartellMacall B. Polay—HBO
Nell Tiger Free as Myrcella Baratheon.Macall B. Polay—HBO

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