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Watching The Cheap Seats Australia & Mel Tracina (Culture Correspondent) happened to mention piracy on screen

The reactions from the audience & hosts were priceless lol

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is pretty common in Australian media, piracy is quite widespread here so I don't think there's really a social taboo around it. Public figures usually reference it in a joking way to protect themselves but we all know what they're really saying and doing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Holy shit this is some of the absolute worst data visualisation I've ever seen, thankyou for this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's pretty bad, I had to scroll for a while to come across the statistics I was interested in. Between 15% and 20% of Australians unlawfully stream content, while for downloading it's up around the 65% mark. Unlawful live streaming of sport is around 25%, as is video game piracy. Music streaming has lower levels of unlawful access - only 12%. However music downloading is again much higher, around 62%. Most lawful content is delivered via streaming these days, so it makes sense to me that the numbers are lower for streaming and higher for downloading. These are all self-reported figures of course, so it's likely that they are somewhat underestimating the scale of unlawful behaviours.

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