In an exercise more futile than convincing King Joffrey to chill out or Daenerys Targaryen to exchange her dragons for anything but more dragons, the U.S. Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleitch has told the blood and sex addicted citizens of Convict Island to please stop downloading Game of Thrones so much because “piracy is not some victimless crime” and “stealing is stealing”. That means you, everyone.
Bleitch addressed this very important issue in a Facebook post titled “Stopping the Game of Clones” (sweet title, dog!), expressing pride at the show’s success Down Under but labeling our brazen disregard for piracy law “troubling”:
“Earlier this month, my family and I joined millions of
others in watching the premiere of the third season of Game of Thrones.
For those who aren’t already fans, it is a great epic chronicling the
devious machinations of rival noble houses fighting for
supremacy. Unfortunately, nearly as epic and devious as the drama, is
its unprecedented theft by online viewers around the world…
As the Ambassador here in Australia, it was especially
troubling to find out that Australian fans were some of the worst
offenders with among the highest piracy rates of Game of Thrones in the
world. While some people here used to claim that they used pirate sites
only because of a delay in getting new episodes here, the show is now
available from legitimate sources within hours of its broadcast in the
United States.”
Which, true, are feasible legal alternatives for people who live with their parents and have air conditioning but what about the rest of us? More importantly Jeffrey (a name we are immediately suspicious of for its phonetic similarity to Joffrey) do you not have more important, non fantasy fiction related things to deal with?
Let’s just make a fake deal to never download anything again.
Here’s our most valuable GIF as collateral…
Via Kotaku
