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Was the New Dr. Who Leaked on Purpose?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wouldn't-surprise-me-a-bit dept.

Static-MT writes "The pilot episode of the BBC's highly anticipated new Doctor Who series may have been intentionally leaked onto file-sharing networks to generate buzz, a source who instructed the network on viral advertising told Wired News."

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  1. Make's sense... by ZephyrXero · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once again proving that "illegal" file sharing only helps good media and hurts bad media.

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    1. Re:Make's sense... by ZephyrXero · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't really see why this was moderated as "funny"...lol. I was being serious ;)

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    2. Re:Make's sense... by ZephyrXero · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Media" was referring to music, television shows, books, software, movies, etc... not "the media" or "big media" ;)

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    3. Re:Make's sense... by Fred_A · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think they were laughing at the apostrophe in the title you picked for the thread.

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    4. Re:Make's sense... by ZephyrXero · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought about that too...lol.

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    5. Re:Make's sense... by ZephyrXero · · Score: 2, Funny

      Umm...it's not like I did it on purpose...I didn't mod my own posts..lol.

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  2. Who let the daleks out? Who? Who? Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who let the daleks out? Who? Who? Who?

  3. My dad's been saying the same thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But we don't believe him and are taking him to see the urologist.

  4. Re:Who let the daleks out? Who? Who? Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who let the daleks out? No he didn't!

  5. Re:So whats wrong with this? by AviLazar · · Score: 2, Funny

    It would be interesting, and kind of funny, *IF* a media company leaked out its proprietary information to claim a loss of revenue, was founded to have leaked the information on its own (and I am not referring to rogue employees).

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  6. Got it by TheDoctorWho · · Score: 3, Funny

    Decent Episode, could bode well. Will get the other episodes as they are aired. This Doc could be good. SciFi turned down the series, it would interfere with the repeats of ManSquito.

  7. Re:So whats wrong with this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha-ha!

    The "bootleggers" have been turned into marketing tools! Not only did you torrent hosts use your bandwidth to advertise a product, you did it without getting paid a cent.

    pwned!

    Corporate Empire: 1
    Forces Against The Man: 0

  8. Re:So whats wrong with this? by ZephyrXero · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'd be better off watching this documentary instead. Comes out on DVD in April, but it's pretty easy to find on file sharing networks ;)

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  9. Re:Let's remember what the BBC is. by Malc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here it is! Every BBC story on /. always has somebody incorrectly making statements about the Beeb are a government org paid for by taxes. *sigh*

  10. The evil bit! by autophile · · Score: 2, Funny
    If i downloaded desperatehousewives.s1e21.avi, how would I know if this was a marketing release or not?

    You need to set the "detect evil bit" setting in your p2p client. Now, if you're asking whether marketing releases have the evil bit set or not, then I'm not sure.

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