Joining us again today is Hayden Delaney who is a
Partner in the Intellectual Property and Technology Team at
HopgoodGanim. Hayden thanks for joining us again.
Thanks very much for having me again Kate.
Now Hayden the Government's released its Discussion
Paper on piracy and copyright. I guess to start us off what were
some of the major recommendations to come out of the
Paper?
Yeah that's right Kate and some interesting statistics were
coded in the paper and you know looking at it, it would appear that
as a country Australia is a little bit of a nation of copyright
infringers, something that was a particularly interesting
statistics was the fact that the final episode of Game of Thrones
which was broadcast exclusively on Foxtel in Australia, was
illegally downloaded 1.5 million times by Australians in the 12
hours following the finale. So some pretty staggering statistics,
and there might be a few reasons that are contributing to that, but
in terms of what the
