PR Faux Pas: HBO Rep Says Piracy 'Is a Compliment of Sorts'

Most of the world’s biggest media companies have recently taken some time to endorse or promote the latest anti-piracy campaigns like the so-called “six strikes” law that would use web providers to mess with the service of people who share copyrighted properties.

Despite this fact, HBO programming president Michael Lombardo committed a PR faux pas during an interview with Entertainment Weekly in which he addressed Game of Thrones’s status as the most-pirated show of all time with an effective “meh”.

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