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There's a culture of piracy here that's pretty interesting; people bring entire TB hard drives and small NAS devices into work to share entire collections among
by beedogs 13y ago
There's a culture of piracy here that's pretty interesting; people bring entire TB hard drives and small NAS devices into work to share entire collections among each other. (This has abated somewhat now that internet prices aren't so extortionate.)
- Khaine 13y agoThat culture is down to several factors: * price * availability * quality of our TV Networks
- anthonyb 13y agoI think another major one is the cost and quality of our broadband networks. It's expensive here to download movies, or even to have a connection that's good enough to stream.
- chris_wot 13y agoThe third point effects the second point. Our TV networks are absolutely crap. They only ever develop reality TV shows, the bottom of the barrel being "Celebrity Splash" (z-grade celebrities dived into a pool); they never show series in order, they interrupt series with something irrelevant, and they show a LOT of ads. Their news is even more atrocious. Its a badly kept secret that their overall audiences have been shrinking, which is why they only ever give ratings in terms of percentages. A large percentage of a shrinking market is ok, until of course the market gets below a certain size. Note this does not include the ABC, which is government funded. That network takes risks, always shows series in order, and even has a great streaming service.
- bjz_ 13y agoThe ABC and SBS are great channels. Very high quality content (I don't bother anything else on Aussie TV)