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When Breaking Bad ended, there was hay made about how Australia was 20% of downloads of Felina within 12 hours of its finale; that we were one of the biggest thieves of that. And I remembered hearing in class the stat from American online storefront or other that 20 million illegal downloads were made in the first 24 hours. And I always thought that was a funny stat since it implied that of our 24 million people, only 4 milllion of us weren't into Breaking Bad.
But I went back to check the numbers and it turns out that the actual number was that in a cohort of 12k torrents, 18% were from Australia... and then the followup is 'but each of those could distribute it to a hundred friends.'
Copyright math is truly special