A casual look at pay TV in Asia Pacific reveals the same set of challenges as any other region but with different priorities and piracy remaining as a major impediment to investment. Piracy is one factor uniting a region that is otherwise much more diverse over pay TV than Latin America or even Europe, where differences between wealthy and poorer economies are smaller. This is well illustrated by fixed broadband penetration, which stands at 41.2% in South Korea, the fifth highest level in the world, but only 17% in India and just 9% in Indonesia where mobile is growing faster. There are similar disparities in other measures like VoD usage excluding YouTube, varying from 72% in Hong Kong to 10%…