Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated

Posted by Unknown on Monday August 12, 2013 @07:11PM from the broadcast-is-dead dept.

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?"

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Re:commercials by gigaherz · 2013-08-12 22:03 · Score: 1, Flamebait

You are not the average consumer then. The average consumer soaks in advertisements, and then when they go shopping they will favor the brand that has burned the strongest into their brains.
If advertisement did not work, the whole industry would have died a long time ago.