"Breaking Bad" creator: A vote for "work for exposure"?
Monday, October 28, 2013 at 5:00AM In an interview with the BBC, Vince Gilligan, the creator of TV mega-hit Breaking Bad, gives partial credit to illegal pirating for the show's immense success. According to TorrentFreak.com, the show was illegally downloaded over a half-million times.
One of the main motivations for people to download and stream TV-shows from unauthorized sources is availability.
If fans can’t get a show through legal channels they often turn to pirated alternatives.
Gilligan's response?
“I see that there are two sides to this coin. If I’m being honest I see that the illegal downloading led to a lot of people watching the series, becoming aware of the series who otherwise would not have been... I see that in some ways illegal downloading has helped us, certainly in terms of brand awareness, so that’s a good side.”
So, time to stop sending cease-and-desist notes to comic scrapers and embrace pirating, right?