The One Slide That Perfectly Illustrates Why Australians Feel Ripped Off

    Australians losing in the #content wars.

    Mark Di Stefano
    by Mark Di Stefano

    BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia

    The slide was presented by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and shows the long delays and exorbitant charges laid on Australians with regards to film, TV and music using three recent examples.

    Josh Taylor / Via Twitter: @joshgnosis

    Mr Turnbull's presentation was given as part of the public consultation process into the Federal Government's copyright policy, which held a well-publicized event in Sydney on Tuesday night.

    Twitter user Kenneth Tsang then sent the full side to BuzzFeed.

    Twitter: @jxeeno

    It shows Australian audiences had to wait two months more to see The Lego Movie and paid more to both rent and buy the movie.

    Warner Bros. / Via legomovie.tumblr.com

    That it also took months for Game of Thrones to become available in the iTunes store and Australians were charged up to twice as much for cable subscriptions.

    HBO / Via tumblr.com

    And Australians were charged nearly 60% more than Americans to download Sia's recent album, "1000 Forms of Fear".

    NBC / Via media.giphy.com

    Opposition MP Ed Husic noticed the slide and tweeted it Tuesday night, saying it represented how Australians felt ripped off by large content providers.

    Ed Husic @edhusicMP

    2nd slide at #CopyrightAU touches on #FairIT4Oz ... #justsaying

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    Australia "leads the world" in illegal downloading, especially when it comes to Game of Thrones.

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