Seasonal Fatigue and Video Piracy

We're at that stage when, with Christmas itself a few days away, newspapers start to go into holiday mode.  With many of their staff on holiday, the rest probably permanently pissed from Christmas parties, actually reporting the news becomes a terrible burden to them.  Their supplements are suddenly filled with lazy articles listing 'top tens' of the year, the 'Best of' of the year and top tips for lighting your Christmas pudding, instead of their regular features.  All these, of course, were probably written weeks, if not months, ago, so really, no effort at all is going into producing those supplemental sections.  Not that i'm criticising them - it's Christmas and nobody can be arsed to start anything before the New Year.  In fact, I'm envious, as I'd love to have a stockpile of stuff to post here for the next few days because, to be frank, I've really run out of steam.  I'm exhausted with all the rushing around I've had to do, fighting through the hordes of Christmas shoppers in every shop I visit and I'm still not feeling the Christmas spirit.  Consequently, my creative energies have vanished entirely.  Inspiration for posts has dried up entirely.  The past few days, what energy I have seems to have been watching Haitian and Ghanaian TV channels via Roku.  It's not that I have any particular interest in these countries, but both boast English-language channels that broadcast internationally, through IPTV, what I assume is entirely pirated material.  The Haitian channel I can currently receive, for instance, shows a continuous stream of big-budgeted, mainly recent, movies.  

I get the distinct impression that it is actually someone's DVD or Blu-Ray collection being shown - several Bond movies turn up regularly, for instance, with Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, but every so often Diamonds Are Forever with Sean Connery randomly turns up, reinforcing the idea that this is a personal movie collection being aired rather than any kind of professional film library.   While the Ghanaian channels showing similar content are monetised with ads, the Haitian one doesn't seem to carry any ads, making their motivation unclear.  They seem to be a subsidiary of a local radio station, so maybe that's the bit that makes the money and the TV channel is there to try and draw in international viewers.  The guys running these channels clearly have no fear of legal reprisals for their flagrant use of unlicensed copyrighted material.  And why should they?  They are in Haiti and Ghana, for God's sake.  Who is going to enforce copyright there (even if these territories recognise international copyright laws)?  In the case of Haiti, I'm actually unclear as to whether it currently has a fully functioning government.  Certainly, it has sufficient other problems that enforcing copyright law is going to come pretty low on its agenda.  I'm sure that, sooner or later, some or all of these channels will either be shut down or blocked from Roku.  But they will inevitably be replaced by new channels or simply resurrected under new names, (the latter being a regular occurrence on Roku with various apps carrying content of dubious legality constantly being removed, then popping up again with a new identity).  In the meantime, I'll enjoy their pirated content while it is still available.