BitTorrent seems to really go further than before with their intentions to become a legitimate business. “Game of Thrones”, which has been (erroneously) reported to be the most famous TV series on peer-to-peer networks this year, should be watched on HBO, the company believes.

In a recent blog post BitTorrent Inc. not only dismantles the idea that Game of Thrones is “the once and future king of BitTorrent”, but also stresses out the fact that “piracy happens outside the BitTorrent ecosystem.”

Matt Mason, vice president of marketing at BitTorrent Inc. wrote:

“We don’t host infringing content. We don’t point to it. It’s literally impossible to illegally download something on BitTorrent. To pirate stuff, you need more than a protocol. You need a search, a pirate content site, and a content manager. We offer none of those things. If you’re using BitTorrent for piracy, you’re doing it wrong.”

“These so-called ‘records’ are presumably based on numbers from pirate websites that have no affiliation with BitTorrent, Inc. If they’re corroborated using data from pirate websites, they’re Internet Piracy Records. They’re not BitTorrent Piracy Records,” his blog post continued.

At the time being, the news received no comments (on BT’s official website), but we’re pretty sure the subject will soon turn up the heat.

BitTorrent Inc. is clearly trying to make peace with Hollywood. To that end, it signed a deal with Cinedigm, but the contract’s progress is slow due to the company’s “fabricated” image. Public Enemy, one of the popular hip hop bands, had also signed with BT (read more here).

“We don’t endorse piracy. We don’t tally up illegal downloads, and crown pirate-kings. But these kinds of stories give us the opportunity to tell the truth about what’s going on inside BitTorrent.

In partnership with the Internet Archive, artists, labels and studios, we’ve made more than two million pieces of licensed, legal content available for download over the BitTorrent protocol. We’ve built a legit media ecosystem designed to close the gap between creators and fans. In 2012 alone, titles from this collection have been downloaded over 152 million times,” the blog post continues.

If you thought that “Games of Thrones” is the most downloaded TV series on peer-to-peer networks, think again. According to BitTorrent Inc., “Epic Meal Time” accounts for more than 8.6 million downloads.

“We discovered that the real king of BitTorrent isn’t Game of Thrones. With 8,626,987 downloads, hands-down-most-downloaded show of 2013 via BitTorrent is Epic Meal Time; a show published into BitTorrent willingly and legally by the creators themselves. That’s nearly double the claimed downloads of the Game of Thrones finale.”

Asked by Anthony of TechCrunch if the company is trying to draw a clear line between BitTorrent (peer-to-peer) and BitTorrent Inc., Christian Averill, BT Inc.’s spokesperson, said:

“The piracy itself is happening outside of the protocol. The technology is exploited as part of [the] technology stack used for piracy. As such, it is only the pipes that content moves through. You cannot rip a DVD with BitTorrent technology and there is no infringing content hosted on BitTorrent and pirated content is not promoted on BitTorrent.”

“Exploited” is apparently becoming the favorite word when it comes to such delicate issues (read online piracy), but Averill does make a valid point.