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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Nine’s hit crime drama Underbelly, banned by the courts in Victoria, is now available to the state’s viewers via internet file-sharing networks.
Sophisticated illegal networks operating deep underground are believed to be behind the distribution.
The prohibition of quality Australian drama in Melbourne has created a culture of law-breaking, in which ordinary citizens visit speakeasy-type viewing rooms in the back of pubs where Underbelly episodes are captured and compressed in basement bathtubs.
The underground distribution of Underbelly episodes requires the network of corrupt cops, politicians and unions that make Victoria the best Australian state to set crime dramas.
Nine had initially planned to circumvent the ban by promoting Underbelly in Victoria as a weight-loss reality show.
Victorians are not permitted to read below this line
The Supreme Court banned the broadcast of Underbelly after the Director of Public Prosecutions claimed it could jeopardise the trial of the men who killed mob boss Lewis Moran (Neil Farrer and Evan Prassis) or the guy who ordered the hit (Tim McGuire).
