This time, I wanted to watch Game of Thrones legally – from Germany. The rights are with Sky Online, a 10 bucks a month subscription service. Sounds good in theory. I signed up and then:<p><pre><code>    - I had to wait 25 minutes for the activation email
    - I activated my account, but it wouldn’t let me access my account settings for another 25 minutes
    - then I had to install Silverlight (I’m on OS X)
    - then I tried to start the stream, which resulted in an OS freeze and something like the OS X blue screen, which I have never seen ever before
    - then I rebooted and tried again, which failed with the *authentication* step
    - the web inspector showed a bunch of JS and&#x2F;or Silverlight errors
    - I gave up and installed Silverlight on my wife’s Win 10 machine
    - the stream would load, but it has hard-coded German subtitles for signs and Dothraki scenes, which is annoying.
    - it has no optional English subtitles
    - it is only HD, not Full HD
    - stream was kind of laggy
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So, now compare this to the pirated process:<p><pre><code>    - downloads very fast
    - usually there are subtitles
    - superb quality
    - I can watch whenever I want with the player I want
    - no browser plugins, no errors, no nothing.
    - it just works</code></pre>