Didn’t bother paying for AMC to watch “Breaking Bad”? As far as Vince Gilligan is concerned, you were doing the show a favor.
“Breaking Bad” creator Gilligan told the BBC that illegal downloading of his series — which wrapped its run in late September — “helped” boost the show’s popularity and built its “brand awareness.”
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“[Piracy] led to a lot of people watching the series who otherwise would not have,” Gilligan said.
Gilligan did concede, however, that piracy, while raising awareness of the show, had a flattening effect on his wallet.