Young turn to piracy to watch pay TV for free

Posted in: Online TV/Music at 07/02/2011 16:21

Broadcasting analysts are predicting a fresh tide of television piracy in the wake of the launch of Sky Atlantic, the glossy satellite channel that has bought the UK rights to many of America's most successful drama series, including Mad Men and The Sopranos.

Fans of popular and acclaimed US shows such as the Prohibition-era Boardwalk Empire and comedy drama Entourage are already honing new, illicit ways of accessing episodes of the shows they love without the need to pay at least £20 a month to subscribe to Sky.

To read this report in The Observer in full, see:
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/06/sky-atlantic-tv-piracy-internet

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