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TV Delays Driving AU Viewers To Piracy
Astat1ne writes in with a story in The Register about the delays Australian TV viewers are experiencing getting overseas-produced series and how this is driving many of them to download the shows via BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks. The problem is compounded by the fact that Australian viewers are unable to download legal copies of the episodes from the US iTunes website. Quoting: "According to a survey based on a sample of 119 current or recent free-to-air TV series, Australian viewers are waiting an average of almost 17 months for the first-run series first seen overseas. Over the past two years, average Australian broadcast delays for free-to-air television viewers have more than doubled from 7.9 to 16.7 months."
No kidding. It's TV, for crying out loud! This isn't a life or death situation. Go read a freakin' book!
Or, if you wish to be part of the solution, and not part of the landscape, write to your local TV stations and start complaining! Write to their advertisers! DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE!
You are obviously an idiot. "I don't want to wait, so stealing is okay" is not an excuse for it. Hell, I don't want to wait for my million dollars I am going to make, so I will steal it from the bank. I'll make that much over my lifetime anyway, right? Idiot.