piracy
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New Foxtel Pricing: Subscription TV Finally Gets Cheaper, Better For Binge Watching
You can’t compete with free when it comes to content. Aussies have already shown that they’re prepared to steal it before they’ll pay too much for it. In a bid to shift the tide, Foxtel is finally making its pay TV packages cheaper.
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This Is How Hollywood Wants The Government To Fight Piracy In Australia
Crikey got hold of a response paper from Hollywood studios to the government’s proposed crackdown on copyright infringement. It’s not exactly a surprising paper, except that it’s surprisingly aggressive.
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The Bizarre History Of X-Ray Records And Early Music Piracy
Thanks to the internet’s amazing capacity for self-recycling, articles about Soviet pirate recordings made of X-rays pop up frequently in my feeds. These popular, widely-shared posts explain how, in the 1950s and ’60s, music fans in the Soviet Union fabricated bootlegged recordings of banned western music — and they used old X-rays to do it.…
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Why Presto’s Price Cut Won’t Stop Aussies Using Netflix
“Foxtel’s Presto Movie Streaming Service Is Now Cheaper Than Netflix“. That was the headline from Gizmodo’s own Campbell Simpson in the wee hours of this morning. Foxtel is finally taking the fight to Netflix on price, but it still won’t get online content lovers away from Netflix and onto the Presto service. Here’s why.