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Australian Drug Mafia to Sell Pirated DVDs?

torrentfreak.com — If you ask any Australian what the most annoying thing is about TV shows or movies, a common response is that it can take a long time for things popular in the US and UK to make it ‘down under’. Apparently, the Mafia has picked up on this, as they have started selling pirated movies and TV-shows on the streets, or have they?

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 3, 2008

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  • tama00, on 07/03/2008, -1/+24Im from Australia and this is stupid, we just use torrents like everyone else.
  • artfiend77, on 07/02/2008, -1/+15RIAA: " We're taking you to court and we're gonna sue you for everything you got dirty pirates!!!!!!"

    Pirate mafia: " BLAM!!!"

    RIAA: " My leg!!!! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!"
  • PurpleSfinx, on 07/03/2008, -1/+14Things that Australia doesn't have:

    Rock Band
    iPhone
    Unlimited Internet
    A working Digg comment box. Stop bouncing!

    /Cry
  • sfacets, on 07/02/2008, -1/+13Australia Mafia is the best. Probably cheaper to buy DVDs from them than download using crappy internet service.
  • lecturethis, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11BEING AUSTRALIAN, its a beat up, this article is from the same people that say that Movie Piracy support terrorism. Plain and simple the information is wrong, wrong, wrong. The Aussie law is so far behind the times regarding whats going on its a joke.
  • AngelBunny, on 07/02/2008, -0/+11this was profitable in the 90's. now everyone downloads. however, i can understand why it is somewhat profitable in Australia. the ISPs there cap how much bandwidth a month the user can use kind of like minutes on a cell phone plan. Downloading movies can cost as much to rent them in parts of Australia.

    that and the scene is tech a mafia, or was years ago at least.
  • craighoxton, on 07/03/2008, -1/+12On the plus side, your women are very *****
  • tama00, on 07/03/2008, -0/+10We don't have the RIAA in Australia. The RIAA is an American company which has no legal grounds over here.
  • kjd84, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9Yeah thats right Tama00.

    www.exetel.com
    www.bigpond.com
    www.tpg.com.au

    check their prices..
    Telstra & Bigpond Sux balls WORST COMPANY EVER!!!
  • boardthis, on 07/03/2008, -4/+13australian mafia?

    the nutella gang?
  • Osirus1156, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8See, the Mafia isn't all that bad!
  • Murdats, on 07/03/2008, -1/+9doesnt stop them in russia or sweden.

    and does stop them basically telling the aria what to do.
  • sfacets, on 07/02/2008, -2/+8If you saw the state of Australian broadband, you would understand. Slow speeds, expensive connections, and low bandwidth.
  • Myztry, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6Yes it does. The Pirate Bay have been pissing in their face for quite a few years.
  • spanglegluppet, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5Well, ***** the RIAA, I guess.
  • Matri, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5It's rather telling that people are starting to like the Mafia more than the RIAA/MPAA...
  • estate, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5The commercial stations lost a lot of revenue because of delayed broadcast of shows like Lost and Prison Break last year. Now they broadcast a lot of them the night after they do in the States (after time difference, it works out at less than eight hours or something) and all of a sudden their ratings have gone back up!
  • inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4the people want the movies and would probably pay for them, but the suits obstruct sooo...
    Its like in Jurassic Park when jeff goldbloom says 'nature will find a way' ... nature's way just happens to a drug mafia.
  • benguild, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4Sweet...
  • madwaxer, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4also gets around having the ISPs turn you in for downloading large files. though if you get a fake its nont easy to ask for a refund. had it been on your pc you wouldn't be out that much money.
  • acidacid, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4People who are saying the Aussie T.V stations have cleaned up their act have NFI what good shows the U.S get that we STILL get waaaaaay later. The first episode of Dexter is only being shown on free to air this Sunday for ***** sake, and the U.S has already had 2 seasons! Sure, we may get Lost, Heros, House (even though most of these are shown around a week later than the U.S) etc etc, but we are still getting ripped off. As well, tons of shows are only shown on Foxtel (cable) instead of free to air which is *****.
    Not only are torrents better in terms of time, but often they are way better quality (720p, 1080p) instead of the rubbish that is shown on our stations.
  • craighoxton, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4In the UK we have these little Chinese fellas come into pubs to sell them
  • Aliwalla, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3If Australia is anything like South Africa, no one actually buys DVD/Series from pirates. Everything is sourced by kind friends. I have several series on my laptop atm and all of those were from friends, or friends of friends.
  • Niz1, on 07/03/2008, -2/+5I hate pirate DVDs only because they're usually dodgy cam versions sold as DVDs. This was back in the day of 56k speeds. (yes im using internet speed to define time) I dont know how good these DVDs are now they are just the internet version burnt on DVD so i cant imagine much change. Yes i realise there are the good quality ones.
  • Ninh, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3See a need, fill a need. That's what good business is all about. Ignore your customers at your own peril.
  • xmrkkr, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3Australia too!! I though it happened only in India (Asia).
  • WomensUnderwear, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2australian tv is ***** because no-one wants to stay indoors watching that crap
  • Myztry, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2I want the kids to see Wall-E. I'm willing to pay up to $100 for a viewing. If the Australian Mafia has it, yet the American Mafia won't let me have it. I know which is the better option...
  • mudgie, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1I'm an Aussie, and my TV isn't even hooked up to the aerial, but a computer that I download all the shows to. Air the shows at the same time as the US, and maybe I won't bother buying overpriced internet.

    Dexter for example is JUST starting up on free-to-air - I watched the whole series from BitTorrent ages ago.

    PS: Australian Mafia sounds hilarious - I envision Vegemite heists.
  • DCJoeDogaswell, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I'd rather like to see a geek mafia LOL
  • Spanca, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Did you read the article? The article itself said this whole idea is *****.
  • joshman5k, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1How is Australian Law any different to UK law or US law?
  • pagno, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1"...and even the TorrentFreak researcher, living in the middle of rural Georgia, 10 miles from the nearest shops, has an 8Mbit connection."

    What the *****! Now I know, I need to leave TX.
  • mauso, on 07/03/2008, -2/+2"If you ask any Australian what the most annoying thing is about TV shows or movies, a common response is that it can take a long time for things popular in the US and UK to make it ‘down under’."

    To be fair, the Australian TV networks have cleaned up their acts in regard to some of the bigger shows (Lost, 24, etc). This delay is often quite small.

    Of all the comment boxes I've ever typed in, this one is the stupidest.
  • celotil, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1Actually we've got the unlimited broadband, you just have to search for it and ignore the ***** ads from Telstra, Optus, and the other major ISP's. Check out whirlpool.net.au for info.

    iPhone's coming - I noticed that we've got TV Shows on the iTunes store now too, but the selection sucks.
  • jamie191817, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1Dugg for racism.
  • joshman5k, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1Yeah I'll have to agree. Now they "fast track it" so it is only about a week behind the US which isn't bad at all.

    All of the big movies we usually get first because there is a global release date (and we ahead in timezones) however normal movies take a lot longer.
  • Murdats, on 07/03/2008, -2/+1it might slow them down, but I seem to recall a certain bay of pirates having their servers seized on the behest of this american organisation, and a certain mp3 site containing all of changing their name to avoid the mounting legal costs from this same american organisation.
  • say592, on 07/01/2008, -10/+4***** Australia....

    Wait, thats not right....Australia is badass!
  • whatthefu, on 07/03/2008, -7/+1There's an Australian drug mafia?
  • inactive, on 07/03/2008, -8/+1Roo penis soup. Roo penis, roo penis, get your roo penis soup right here. Aussies fondle the roos mate, you better believe it. Teh mafia fondles the roos and cuts their penises off and make a soup with it. They also put roo turds in the soup along with vegemite(which is a salty, bitter tasting paste made from roo cum).
  • inactive, on 07/03/2008, -10/+1The Aussies are *****.

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