Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated 443
tlhIngan writes "One reason that many people pirate TV shows is 'it's not available in my country until months after it airs.' Which is why the second episode of Breaking Bad's final season was aired globally within a few hours of each other yesterday evening. Despite this, many users still decided to download it than watch it when it aired locally. Australia users we the top, perhaps because it was on FoxTel. This was followed by U.S. and Canada (who obviously got to see it when it aired), and the UK where Netflix had it within hours of the U.S. premier. Fifth on the list was the Netherlands, where it had aired hours before the U.S. premier on a public channel. It's obvious that despite the global release, the show was headed to top its previous highs in number of downloads. Could this spell the doom to future global releases, since the evidence is people just pirate them anyways?"
Broadcast TV (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How many knew that it was a global release? (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know about the U.K. but in the U.S. it can be remarkably hard to actually cancel those sorts of offers. Please carve your reason for canceling into marble slabs in triplicate and deliver to our head office (located conveniently in Uzbekistan) in person between 3AM and 3:01AM on a Friday.