Funny. One of the producers of the Walking Dead is a good bud of mine and he told me if it wasn’t for torrent, WD would not be as popular as it is today.
So ask your “producer” friend ... when everybody downloads through torrent and no one is paying for the service ... who is going to pay his/her “producer” salary? Believe me, your producer friend may believe that torrent has expanded the universe of TWD but would never want it to take over as the most popular way of getting the show. Ask him/her ... I dare you!