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Where is that? Asking for a friend.
Most of South America.
Brazil, for instance, tacitly encourages piracy. Because foreign media is too expensive for locals to be able to regularly afford it, so the entire country’s foreign media consumption is basically fueled by content piracy. It’s sort of an open secret, where everyone just openly downloads or streams pirated content and the government doesn’t give a fuck.
Estonia
Thanks. FWIW I'm pretty sure that what they are accused of is illegal in all the EU because of the copyright directive.
Most EU countries aren't following the copyright directive actually. Only Germany, Hungary, Malta and Netherlands are.
Australia. Not sure if it counts for everything, but AFAIK for movies pirating them is okay as long as you're not sharing (i.e. uploading, seeding, etc.) and it's for personal use.