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Pirate Apple TV Operation Nabbed In Australia

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 1, 2012 @03:29PM from the pirate-channel dept.

littlekorea writes "New South Wales Police have arrested a man selling USB keys bearing the Apple logo, which offered access to over a thousand Pay TV channels, another thousand movies on demand and several hundred adult films. A forensic analysis of the device revealed the content was hosted in China but streamed via US servers and domains."

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Re:Ignorance like this needs to be corrected by psiclops · 2012-02-01 16:09 · Score: 5, Informative

Australia is not in the UK. We have our own laws seperate from the empire.
Although according to this article they have identified 100 customers and will be pursuing them for recieving stolen goods. I dont know how that'll go in court though.

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Re:Ignorance like this needs to be corrected by Cimexus · 2012-02-01 17:38 · Score: 5, Informative

Actually, the Queen of Australia is on our money. The fact that the same physical person also happens to be the Queen of England is irrelevant. One person, multiple hats.
When the Queen is in Australia, she's not there as the Queen of England (or any other Commonwealth realm). All the standards, flags, titles associated with her role as Queen of England are nowhere to be seen - the Australian equivalents are used instead. For instance this flag will be on her vehicle.
One might argue that it's all a subtle technicality. But we don't put the Queen of England on our money, any more than the UK puts the Queen of Australia on theirs.