Game of Thrones Star Predicts HBO Will Ditch Digital Scripts After Hacks

After another week of leaks for HBO, one of the stars of Game Of Thrones  is speaking out on how he thinks the network should respond.

In an interview Thursday with the EW Morning Live radio show, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister on the show feels that HBO should incorporate an  old-school approach to protect future content.

“I think they’re basically going to go back to hand-delivering and just giving us scripts,” he said. “Just give us the hard copies instead of all this email and digital stuff. I think that’s what’s going to happen in a few years’ time, because you know, you talk to cops on the street, ‘What’s the biggest crime now?’ It’s all credit card fraud. It’s all that stuff. It’s digital. So we got to go back to cash.”

Coster-Waldau also stated that multiple emails have been created in order to prevent hacks from occurring.

 “They had to be triple and quadruple [checked]. All this stuff, right? And, of course, now they have this big hack!”

The recent hacks on HBO have hackers claiming that they have stolen 1.5 terabytes of data, including emails, show scripts and unaired episodes of series on the network.

 


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