interesting, if only for the first official comments from the WB..

Wired News: Rejected TV Pilot Thrives on P2P

A sacked TV pilot about a large number of people who stay in touch through an underground data network has popped up on … well, an underground data network.
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Rogers, who said he had nothing to do with the leak, has already received 350 e-mails from people praising the show. He said he would like to release the pilot as a DVD.

“If that’s successful, that’s a pretty good argument to pick up the show,” he said.

Of course, the decision to broadcast the show is up to Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the pilot. The studio declined to comment about the future possibility of airing the show. However, it wasn’t shy this week about slamming the BitTorrent leak.

“Whether the pilot was picked up or not, it is still the property of Warner Bros. Entertainment and we take the protection of all of our intellectual property seriously,” said Craig Hoffman, a company spokesman. “While Warner Bros. Entertainment values feedback from consumers, copyright infringement is not a productive way to try to influence a corporate decision.”

Hoffman added that the pilot’s unauthorized distribution is “unacceptable and illegal … no matter what the underlying motives” and said the company hasn’t ruled out taking legal action “when it comes to stopping the illegal distribution of our copyright material.”
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In describing the show, blogger Chuck Lawson wrote, “imagine the X-Files has world-class sex with Alias, and produces a mutant offspring with a taste for crank that lives 20 minutes in the future.”

But with the current buzz wholly the result of unauthorized peer-to-peer activity, show creators are a bit unsure how to proceed.

“I’m officially against downloading files when they violate the laws of the country you live in,” Rogers said on Wednesday.