{"id":3075,"date":"2014-06-06T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2014-06-06T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:14:08","slug":"louis-ck-and-why-we-pirate-all-the-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/louis-ck-and-why-we-pirate-all-the-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis CK, Culture, And Why We Pirate All The Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Louis CK on piracy in Australia\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d458sm5ToWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/2014\/06\/louis-ck-explains-why-all-australians-pirate-things\/\">Mark Serrels at Kotaku AU<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When it comes to piracy Australians get such a bad rap, don\u2019t we? It\u2019s crazy. I mean people in this country are known internationally for being pirates! Politicians claim we pirate things because there are no safeguards against piracy. Louis CK knows better. Louis CK knows that we pirate his show Louie even! But here\u2019s the crazy thing: he totally understands. He gets it. And it\u2019s beautiful.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to get all <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/2014\/04\/australians-piracy-game-of-thrones\/\">Game Of Thrones, something something piracy<\/a> on this topic, but because of the internet, I think Australia <em>culturally<\/em> aligns closer than ever to the US. A big part of culture is media and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Australian pollies have it backwards; Aussies don&#8217;t pirate because there&#8217;s no safeguards against piracy. Aussies pirate because global media and entertainment is a part of Australian culture now. We follow it, we talk about it and contribute back. It has become part of our daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>And piracy? That&#8217;s the best way right now of accessing that part of our culture.<\/p>\n<p>When people shoot the shit at work, they don&#8217;t talk about the show that was on primetime free-to-air last night anymore. They talk about the show that was released in the early afternoon on the torrents which they grabbed when they got home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27133052\/Screenshot_060614_010217_PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_060614_010217_PM\" width=\"1147\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27133052\/Screenshot_060614_010217_PM.jpg 1147w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27133052\/Screenshot_060614_010217_PM-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27133052\/Screenshot_060614_010217_PM-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27133052\/Screenshot_060614_010217_PM-770x403.jpg 770w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27133052\/Screenshot_060614_010217_PM-380x199.jpg 380w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27133052\/Screenshot_060614_010217_PM-800x418.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1147px) 100vw, 1147px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Waiting for that show to air legally, or on Foxtel? Too bad, you&#8217;re already out of the workplace conversation. You&#8217;ve already read a spoiler on Reddit. You saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/cfb2b0f54a\/no-one-can-understand-true-detective-with-joel-mchale-jim-rash\">True Detective parody on Funny or Die<\/a> and didn&#8217;t get it. A bunch of jokes in a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/02\/21\/true-detective-season-2-twitter\/\">Mashable article<\/a> just went over your head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt aligncenter\">&#8220;Am I pirating? Nah, I&#8217;m just keeping up with the times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lack of cooperation by media companies has embedded piracy in Australia as an <em>act of culture<\/em>. And you know what? Culture is sticky. It doesn&#8217;t just magically go away when you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/au\/brandis-and-turnbull-working-on-joint-piracy-crackdown-policy-7000030239\/\">start making vague threats about graduated response schemes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s how US media companies should start seeing Australia; less of an independent country, and more of an extension of the existing US market. Honestly, if there was a big switch on the back of my TV that flipped it from <em>Australia<\/em>-mode to <em>US<\/em>-mode, I&#8217;d flip that switch, stream the decent Aussie shows and be completely fine with the whole situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Am I pirating? 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