HBO is finally going to let you watch its shows without cable

I ditched cable a while ago, but wasn't willing to give up watching some HBO shows, so I convinced myself that pirating them was 'ok,' since that was 'the only for me to get them.' I later realized that my attitude was hypocritical, that I just wanted to have my cake and eat it too. I stopped pirating their shows then, and have definitely missed some of them.

So I am excited about this, and will subscribe as soon as it is available. I'll get to catch up on Game of Thrones now!

It is about damn time.

Welcome to the present, HBO. I am assuming this move is in part to the massively high piracy rate for Game of Thrones episodes. As an Australian resident with no real access to current episodes of Game of Thrones without getting cable TV, I hope they do come through on delivering the service overseas (especially Australia), because if the price is right, I will gladly pay for HD episodes of Game of Thrones (amongst other great HBO shows like True Detective).

So all that stuff they were saying about how it was financially impossible to do this was just PR fabrication? I never would have suspected.

Did you see something asserting point 4?

This has been pretty much the only reason I keep expensive cable services.

The only thing that will keep me away is if the price is a lot more expensive than the $14 a month I a currently paying for HBO.