Andrew Dickens Afternoons

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. 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.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. Maybe it wasn’t.I say this because today the website Newsroom published a story about the percentage of Kiwis who regularly pirate content. 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.With Sky TV