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Dave Dempsey

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17. 7. 2013 - 13:21

Today's Webtip: Legal Glotzen

A list of your options. Let's hope they improve.

So a study was just release that claims that piracy in Norway has sunk as legal options for media purchase have become available. News that has probably only surprised the various media industries associations lawyers.

You can read a google translation of an Aftenposten article if you are curious. It's not really anything too surprising, but nice to have some numbers.

Now we can only hope that someone around these parts finally gets their collective heads out of their Aften. Because the offerings available to us suck. A few weeks in the U.S. made me realize just how much they suck. Yes, we have it much better when it comes to mobile and broadband, but the things we can do with those connections are seriously limited.

But a few do exist. You can find them all here. Fans of U.S. television series won't be too astounded to find that they are S.O.L. while Freunde des Heimatsfilmes will find themselves well served. Now if we could only get the folks at the Verein Anti-Piraterie to tell their Sugar-Daddies to finally sign some online distribution deals...