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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. Wrong number by ghoti · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to TFA, the UK accounts for 38.4% of _EU_ downloads, but only 18.5% worldwide. For comparison, the worldwide number makes a bit more sense ;)

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  2. Re:What shows? by ghoti · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  3. more numbers... by Cryptnotic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering that the UK has roughly 1/5th or so of the population of the U.S. (60 million UK, compared to probably 300 million US), the number of downloads per capita is much larger over there.

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  4. Re:Britain TV is a bit different. by ChrisJones · · Score: 5, Informative

    We only pay for the BBC via taxes, which provides two channels on terrestrial analogue TV, about 7 on terrestrial digital and the same on satellite/cable.
    The rest of the broadcasters in this country are paid for by commercials, spread through the programs at ~15 minute intervals. They are far less intrusive than US ads and we never do things like run the credits, go to a break, come back to the show, break five minutes later, bit more show, ads, then roll the end credits ;)

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