Slight exaggeration to one side, this is a guy who had most likely never committed any other crimes in his life. Season 2 of Homeland? He’d seen it before season 1 had even been given the green-light!
#Team air pirating tv#
I used to have a mate who we’d joke had watched all the trendiest TV shows online before they’d even been made. Whether it’s watching overseas sport or TV drama like Game Of Thrones, or pre the days of Spotify, downloading music you haven’t paid for, the human race seems to be in danger of losing the concept of exchanging money for entertainment. This has also corresponded with the rise in popularity of legal streaming sites like Netflix. As the Newsroom article states, “site blocking” technology has worked well overseas with a “22-percent decrease in in piracy for all users affected by the blocks” in the UK. There are potential solutions, or at least, measures that can be taken that lessen the problem. With Sky TV in New Zealand behind the research, they believe this piracy is costing them millions upon millions in lost revenue annually. Turns out almost a third of Kiwis are illegally enjoying content they haven’t paid for on a “regular” basis – roughly every six months – with 10-percent doing it weekly. I say this because today the website Newsroom published a story about the percentage of Kiwis who regularly pirate content. Obviously, there was a percentage of the population who were in the dark that going to Kmart and not handing over some money for your goods was on shaky legal ground, but I always assumed that percentage was through the floor. It’s a little bit like those old cardboard cut-outs of police officers in department stores saying, “Shoplifting is a crime!” Really? Were people really in the dark about this? How useful that the cardboard police officer was there to let us know that if you want some new clothes, you’ll need to pay for them. I always found it incredible how many otherwise decent folks who’d never in a million years think of themselves as criminals would think nothing about online piracy.