Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20130203002409/@comment-4189499-20130209114425

No no it's legal. The ABC are the ones with the rights to broadcast DW in Australia, but they always do it on a Saturday night, which means because of time zones Aussies usually have to wait a week (because the UK premier the equivalent of Sunday mornings in Aus) and so to cut down on people pirating the videos illegally they put the videos up legally on their website starting this year almost immediately, kinda like iPlayer but just before the episodes aired in the country on TV (as well as for a bit after. Previously they only had it after TV broadcast in Aus like iPlayer does with the UK). There's probably a news article somewhere about it if you want proof. It was kinda a big deal to fast track international episodes that fast.