According to Wikipedia[1], in season 6 every episode cost an average of $10 million - lets say they're shooting 2 alternative endings for a cost of $20 million.<p>For the same $20 million per year they could hire a team of 100-200 security engineers (realistically couldn't even use that many effectively) and still have enough left over for some snake-oil vendor trash products.<p>Instead they do this. If they get hacked again what's to stop the hacker from leaking all 3 endings?<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones#Conception_and_development" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones#Conception_and...</a>