HBO Has Only Itself to Blame for Streaming Struggles

Fans of HBO's True Detective that also tried to stream the season premiere of "Game of Thrones on HBO Go Sunday night may have felt some déjà vu when the company's online service failed again.

Error messages greeted subscribers when they attempted to stream the episode, which had been a highly anticipated event that was also heavily promoted by HBO. The company's Twitter feed issued a series of apologies.

The incident was the second major HBO Go outage in the past month. The last episode of True Detective also caused performance issues on March 9. HBO said overwhelming demand caused both failures. Read more...