Maybe someone should let the TV industry know about the existence of the internet, and what it means for the quaint notion of staggered rollout around the world:

Australian TV viewers are waiting longer than ever to view their favourite overseas produced televisions shows, driving them to use BitTorrent and other internet-based peer-to-peer programs to download programmes from overseas, prior to their local broadcast.

According to a survey based on a sample of 119 current or recent free-to-air TV series', Australian viewers are waiting an average of almost 17 months for the first run series' first seen overseas. Over the past two years, average Australian broadcast delays for free-to-air television viewers have more than doubled from 7.9 to 16.7 months.

Yeah, there's a way to keep your viewers happy and reduce the amount of illegal downloading - make things worse. In a stupid contest between the RIAA, the MPAA, and the TV execs, it entirely unclear who would come out where.