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The Sydney Morning Herald
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Downloading 300 gigabytes is small time in the world of pirating

Despite illegally downloading 300 gigabytes of movies and TV episodes every month, Alex Mack says he doesn't even come close to being Australia's most prolific infringer of copyright.

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