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United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stolen-telly dept.

SumDog writes "The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women. However, according to a story on the Guardian, a new study puts the UK ahead in one more category: it leads the world in TV piracy, accounting for 38.4% of the world's TV downloads, with Australia coming in second at 15.6% and the US in third at a pitiful 7.3%"

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  1. Malfunction, Will Robinson! by Xner · · Score: 5, Funny
    "The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women."

    My sarcasm detector must be malfunctioning, I actually had to read that twice before it blipped ...

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    1. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      What do you call a pretty girl in the UK? A tourist.

    2. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by meitsjustme · · Score: 5, Funny

      Britain, Britain, Britain! Discovered by Sir Henry Britain in sixteen-oh-ten. Sold to Germany a year later for a pfennig and the promise of a kiss. Destroyed in eighteen thirty-fourty two, and rebuilt a week later by a man. This we know. Hello. But what of the people of Britain? Who they? What do? And why?

    3. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by CGP314 · · Score: 5, Funny

      A sarcasm detector? Oh that's useful.


      -Colin

    4. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by chrisbeatty · · Score: 5, Funny

      There are some hot women, you just need to have drunk quite a lot first!!! (-;

    5. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by Xner · · Score: 5, Funny

      You owe me a coffee. And a keyboard.

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    6. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by druid_getafix · · Score: 4, Funny
      "The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women."

      Reminds me of a joke (told from an Indian's perspective of course!!).

      Heaven is: American Salary, British Home, Chinese Food, Indian Wife.

      Hell is: Indian Salary, Chinese Home, British Food, American Wife.

    7. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by Alioth · · Score: 4, Funny

      The climate is wonderful if you're a duck! There's also great food in the UK too - things like Indian, Chinese, Italian. There's also plenty of beautiful women, and most of the beautiful women have cute foreign accents!

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    8. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by Zilquis · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm a lady, with a ladies comment. I'm all flustered now and must sit down for tea and biscuits. I'm a lady you know

    9. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by ThaReetLad · · Score: 3, Funny

      :I want that comment. :But that's a funny comment. Yo don't like funny comments :Yeah, 'know :What about that comment over there? Thats informative, you like informative comments. :Yeah 'know :So i'll just go and get that informative comment :No. I want that one. :Are you sure? It is funny. :Yeah 'know :OK I'll get the funny comment

      later... :I don't like funny comments.

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    10. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by Zilquis · · Score: 5, Funny
      Yea but, no but, yea but, no but, yea but, no but, anyway Melanie said she saw CowboyNeal down by the bike sheds with Natalia Portman, and he was feeling er up, the dirty slag, so it coudn't have been me, so shut up

      Dont know about torrents but emule links here http://www.the-realworld.de/modules.php?name=ed2k& op=Category&cid=1&csid=541

    11. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by ghakko · · Score: 3, Funny

      The original quote: Best case Salary from America,
      house in England,
      Japanese wife,
      Chinese food. Pretty good case Salary from England,
      house in America,
      Chinese wife,
      Japanese food. Worst case Salary from China,
      house in Japan,
      British wife,
      American food. --Bungei Shunju magazine

    12. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by ayjay29 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Heven is where the police are British, the lovers French, the machanics German, the chefs Italian, and it's all organsed by the Swiss.

      Hell is where the police are German, the lovers Swiss, the machanics French, the chefs British, and it's all organsed by the Italians.

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    13. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      As the comedian Billy Connolly once said, "There's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes."

    14. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by greppling · · Score: 3, Funny
      There are some hot women, you just need to have drunk quite a lot first!!! (-;

      It also seems to help if they have drunk quite a lot first...

    15. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by dcarey · · Score: 5, Funny

      Heven is where the police are British, the lovers French, the machanics German, the chefs Italian, and it's all organsed by the Swiss.

      Hell is where the police are German, the lovers Swiss, the machanics French, the chefs British, and it's all organsed by the Italians.
      We hereby note that the latter arguement should be changed to: Hell is where the police are German, the lovers Swiss, the machanics French, the chefs British, the spellers Slashdot readers, and it's all organsed by the Italians

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    16. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by QMO · · Score: 4, Funny

      The Welsh, long known for their insularity, didn't tell the atlas publishers where Wales has been moved to, so the atlases will keep showing Wales where it always was.

      It's all a big conspiracy.

      You probably believe in North Dakota, too.

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    17. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by pla · · Score: 4, Funny

      If only we could produce hotties like Madeleine Albright, Condaleeza Rice, and Barbara Bush.

      Well, you do have Margaret Thatcher...

      Not to mention the whole royal family... ;-)

    18. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by batemanm · · Score: 4, Funny
      - only need to hop across the channel to experience the french

      Ahh there is always a down side :-)

    19. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by Loco3KGT · · Score: 4, Funny

      5 out of 59 million ain't bad!

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  2. Piracy is why Battlestar Galactica is on usenet. by ABeowulfCluster · · Score: 3, Funny

    .. not like any of you whippersnappers know what USENET is...

  3. winge by CGP314 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women.

    ...and for complaining about absolutely everything in a sarcastic manner.


    -Colin

  4. Piracy? by Mr.Progressive · · Score: 3, Funny

    Piracy is a pretty strong word for this particular act. I like to think of it as Distributed Tivo.

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  5. Re:Wait a minute... by Lally+Singh · · Score: 3, Funny

    He got the UK mixed up with the Caribbean. Common mistake.

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  6. Women? by rxmd · · Score: 4, Funny
    The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women.
    Don't forget the excellent beer!
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    1. Re:Women? by phusg · · Score: 3, Funny
      >> The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women.

      > Don't forget the excellent beer!
      Exactly, this is what makes the food, climate and women so great in the first place!!!
  7. Re:What shows? by Gumph · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you had read the article, you'd know it's 24, Enterprise, and Six Feet Under ...

    I would just like to take this opportunity on behalf of my great nation to apologise for the Enterprise thing - not sure what we were thinking, the series must be playing on it's predecessors good PR!
    We will petition the PM and get back to downloading Pr0n forwith!

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  8. Climate has improved now people drive 4x4s by evilandi · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'll have you know that the British climate has improved dramatically since Americans started driving 10-mile-a-gallon SUVs.

    It hits 100F pretty much every year nowadays.

    Global warming may be turning Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean into arrid deserts, but... actually, now I come to think of it, some silver linings don't have a cloud! (Disclaimer: I'm British and drive a 4x4... albeit only a 1.3 litre, and I live next to a farm)

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  9. Re:TV Tax by pjt33 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you callin' me insignificant 'cos I is black?

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  11. Hardly Surpising, Ye Landlubbers by mynameismonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean come on, we practically wrote the book on piracy. Black Bart, Blackbeard, Chris Condent, Calico Jack, Henry Morgan for chrissakes. Hell you could add Francis Drake to the list, the Spanish wouldn't argue.

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  12. Re:Hold it right there Dr. Smith... by Colonel+Cholling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ask the Welsh if they're British.

    Better yet, ask them that in Welsh. They'll probably ask you to repeat it in English.

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  13. Re:more numbers... by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whadaya expect from a country that has FOUR channels?!

    We Americans lead the world in quantities of cheap, mindless TV. We are the envy of the world! And half of it is copied from British TV in the first place.

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