Online Piracy

Duplicate iPhone

noreply@blogger.com (Tee) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:20:00 +0000

This is a Picture of iPhone. But, look properly, it not an Apple iPhone actually. It just one of the duplicate iPhone. This product is coming from China, even Apple iPhone, also can facing online piracy. People who don't know, and if they trying to purchase the item from internet, they might mislead by this picture. Because, it exactly the same with the iPhone, even the logo of the iPhone at the back is also the same, and it written iPhone too. Some people pay Rm2500, to get a cheap duplicate product like this. This product is selling RM400-500 for market price, but some people, they selling Rm1500-2000, because they trying to scam people who don't know much bout iPhone. The duplicate iPhone, and a original iPhone, has a very big different, which is the LCD used by duplicate iPhone is very low quality, by viewing the LCD image, u wil feel the phone is worst. but people who see iPhone before, they know how sharpess the display. Even this duplicate iPhone can design the exactly same interface with original iPhone. Even iPhone can face such problem. What is impossible somemore? can you think about it?

Piracy, piracy and piracy again..

noreply@blogger.com (Ricky) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:07:00 +0000

As in our view, piracy not only happen in just one location, it happens around worldwide too, no matter which category, either movies, FMCG, music, books or many more. As long as can bring profits, people will violate it too. Piracy not only bring negative impacts to owner, it also bring positive impacts as well. No matter what is bringing to the owner, the action is still against the rights. All of us know that piracy is very difficult to banish, but we can reduce it instead of banish it. Supports from the all sectors are highly encourage to handle this problem. With the cooperation from all different sectors, it can decrease the difficulties to handle it as well. All of us can make a difference.

Should we commit online piracy?

noreply@blogger.com (kRaZy) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:03:00 +0000

From a few of my previous posts, there are a few cases that online piracy helped a number of unknown producers be it for music, movie or even games that helped these unknown producers to gain fame and popularity. They have also caught the eyes of some big companies to buy the copyrights of their intellectual properties because they see the potential in it.

In my post today, I wonder if we should commit online piracy if we have a really great idea or production but without the connections. Yes although by doing so, we might get a chance for our work to be recognized by the world, but it is illegal. Online piracy is a crime, and we shouldn't be doing it. Please share with me on what do you think about this issue. Will you take a risk for a ticket to success?

Surprised, Shocked, and feel helpless for Original PC hardware

noreply@blogger.com (Ricky) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:32:00 +0000

Yesterday my friend called me, which is he only 16++ years old and he asked me what is the price for particular PC hardware. I told my friend that price quite expensive because it came out not long ago. Then my friend said he bought with cheap price from unknown seller at forum. So, I asked him is it the things that he bought genuine product? After that I ask my friend to check for the Holograms Sticker. And yes, there's a Holograms Sticker and it is a fake holograms sticker. Its a pirated hardware. The first thing cross to my mind is I laughed at him, I told him his case is suitable for me to do this blog topic and he got pissed off at me. Then i check through online about the fake hardware information and found out a website that discussing related piracy matter.

Here is the matter:

"I think that there's been this dirty little secret among hardware manufacturers, which is that the perception of free content - even if you're supposed to pay for it on PCs - is some sort hidden benefit that you get when you buy a PC, like a right to download music for free or a right to download pirated movies and games," Hollenshead said in an interview with [More...]

cdfreaks, Piracy is hidden benefit for PC hardware, Retrieved on 8th March, 2009
URL: http://www.cdfreaks.com

Those who don't know what is Holograms Sticker here some info

The holograms above in general designs as ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, SECURE, can be made in different color base material. These photos are holograms labels made of silver color tamper evident base material. To increase security, it's good to make pressure sensitive tamper evident (temper-proof) self-adhesive holograms with pattern released feature material which will leave word as ‘VOID', ‘ORIGINAL' when peeled off. It's also great to make sequential numbers(transparent or black) on these holograms.Holographic stickers are mainly 2D/3D with depth & dot-matrix with kinetic effect. Hologram sticker is widely applied onto document, pack or product, for authentication, brand protection and promotion.

Hologram-Supplier, Hologram Experts Retrieved on 8th March,2009
URL: http://hologram-supplier.com

If next time you guys want to buy something through online, please do check is it 100% genuine or original. Money is earn by our own effort, spend it wisely.

Books Being Pirated Online

noreply@blogger.com (kRaZy) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:48:00 +0000

I guess not many of you will know that books are actually pirated online too. Many books such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are available to be downloaded in PDF format FOR FREE! Harry Potter's books are selling like RM35-RM60 per book for non hard cover versions and they all allowing users to download it for free. Can you imagine how much the writer would have lost from there? It's not easy to write a book and it can take up to 1-2years to complete a book.

It is not hard to create a copy of pirate book. According to Richard Loeffler in his article of Book Piracy on the Web,
"All you need is a copy of the book you want to "give away" and a scanner with optical character recognition software and the patience to scan the book, clean it up and post to a web site. It is not difficult to do. In fact this is what the volunteers at Project Gutenberg do.." more

[Online], Retrieved on 8th March, 2009
URL: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/e-books/78353/1

I remembered 3 years ago, a friend of mine knew that I read Harry Potter and she passed me a link that contains all of the Harry Potter series in it. That time the latest book is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It has just been released not long and it is already available for download online. I was really shocked but I insisted on buying the book because I trying to make a collection out of it. To those of you who are keen readers, have you encountered any case like mine before? Please share with me by posting it at the comments section thanks ^^

Most of the iPhone in Malaysia are illegal?Why?

noreply@blogger.com (Tee) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:18:00 +0000

Most of the iPhone is Malaysia are illega. Why? It very simple, because, iPhone didn't official launch in Malaysia, and actually iPhone has locked the network. If you really want to use iPhone, you have go to your service provider, and subscribe the plan, and only they will unlocked for you. But, because of online piracy, and some hacker, now, around the world also can use iPhone. Hacker has upload the software how to unlocked, and jailbreak it for everyone to unlocked the iPhone by themselves. Now, Apple facing the problem is because, everyone can unlocked by themselves in the home, but not by Apple. They trying to solve the problem, but every after few month they change the system, the hacker will able to crack the code again. If you are really interested to know more about iPhone, you should do research by yourself, you will know more than what i'm telling now.

PIRATED SELLERS ARE EVERYWHERE

noreply@blogger.com (Ricky) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:08:00 +0000

Everytime i dinner at the hawker centre, those pirated syndicates are carrying the pirated product walk freely to sell the product. Mostly those seller are from China, they selling those un-guaranteed product. Some of the products are unreliable especially the drama. i remember once i buy a drama from them which had problem to watch. i took the disc and find back the seller that hopefully he would change one for me, but he refuse to do it. Somemore some of the shop which selling computer software which do not have any rights, download from internet and burn into a disc and sell to public. i wonder why still got users buying the products. Pirated product always got problem, Do you face the same problem as well?

Social Networking Sites Impact Music Downloads

noreply@blogger.com (kRaZy) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:16:00 +0000

Today I've found another interesting article on Online Piracy. The title of this article is Social Networks Impact Music Downloads; Piracy Growing. When I saw the title, I was a bit curious on how social networks can impact music download so I read it to find out more. The article is created based on surveys that have been conducted by Entertainment Media Research (EMR) and law firm Olswang. To read the article, kindly click on the article's title above.

The number of people downloading legally has dropped because people can download it online for free through user profiles from social networking sites. According to the results from the article, 39% of the social networking sites users have songs embedded to their profile. By doing so, their friends who viewed their profile might like the songs embedded on it and ending up searching it from the internet to download for free.

I am a social networking site user too and I embed songs to my profiles too. I find it very convenient for me to access my songs when I online from somewhere else. I have friends who are telling me that they think that the songs embedded to my profile is nice and they've already downloaded it. They even give me the link to download it. The songs are available in 320kbits and it's free of charge. No wonder why people are opting for illegal downloads nowadays. It is because they can get the songs in best quality without paying a single cent.

I would suggest to the others who embed songs to their profiles, please do not allowed your users to download it. Using websites such as Imeem can help to prevent illegal download cases because other users will not be able to download the songs.

iPhone facing online piracy too??!!

noreply@blogger.com (Tee) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:39:00 +0000

iPhone,iPod Touch facing online piracy too?? For others, they will start scratching their hair, why just a iphone also can facing such problem. For people who are using it, they might get a little bit of sense of what i'm saying. iPhone launch since 2007 July. There is a lot of people crazy with this phone. Both of it need to keep updating the version from times to times when the new version is release. Since 2008 July, the latest version release which is 2.0 . It start support all the sensor motion games, 3D graphic, and etc. But, if you really want to play this games, you have to download from App Store application which built in with 2.0 firmware. Every games have different prices. For the pricing they set up, each games usually is from US0.99 onward, the most expensive application is US999. But, there is some cracker, they crack all the games, and come out with the instruction of how to crack the iPhone, so that iPhone user can get it free. Although it not a famous case of online piracy. But, if getting more and more people using iPhone, i think, it might becomes a very big issue for everyone. I find out some guys they selling 300 iPhone games/application with only Rm300. Which means, each games for Rm1, and if average the games is USD0.99, and 300 application/games is around Rm1k, people save up another 700?? That the reason, why even iPhone also can facing such problem.

Online Piracy Plagued Media World

noreply@blogger.com (Ricky) — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:09:00 +0000

Online Piracy has plagued music industry as well as other industries for quite numbers of years already. Webpage or forums at the internet or even the shop can be seen providing and selling pirated products openly. To them, what they are doing is just a way for them to earn lots of money in the easy way.They have no idea or they just choose to ignore how big the effect of the plagued has affected the media industry.

Recently in this few years the governments from all over the world have taken measures in flushing out the piracy. Unfortunately the clean flushing still on the far way to go due to the massive users in the internet.

A media release from Software & Information Industry Association 2008 [PDF]

SIIA Extends Online Software Anti-Piracy Campaign with First-Ever
Lawsuits Against Sellers on Amazon.com and iOffer.com

Hopefully from the SIIA's continuous efforts in the Anti Piracy Campaign can help reduce the Online Piracy and increase the piracy sick awareness affected the potential's artists, authors and many more.

Online Piracy hits the Game Industry too

noreply@blogger.com (kRaZy) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:01:00 +0000

When online piracy is mentioned, most of us will think that only the music and movie industry are affected by it but actually there are more and one of it includes the game industry. Although gaming is a popular hobby now especially for teenagers all around the world but somehow, games studios are closing down. How can this happen you ask? The only reason is because of piracy.
While searching for information on this issue, I've found an article which is very well researched to show the impact of piracy on the game industry.

"If there's a single topic that's guaranteed to cause heated debate among PC gamers today, it's piracy and the impact it's having on the PC gaming industry. Almost every gamer you speak to has a strong opinion on this topic, ranging from full support for piracy to total condemnation of it..."more
[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html

The article consist of everything you need to know about the relation between online piracy and game industry. Not only this article, there are other people who are having problem with this issue too and sound out their dissatisfaction on it.

"Spore was without doubt the most anticipated game of the year. The game itself has blown away the people who have played it, but the DRM encouraged thousands to get their copy illegally. Already Spore has been downloaded more than 500,000 times on BitTorrent, and this number is increasing rapidly." <more>
[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://torrentfreak.com/spore-most-pirated-game-ever-thanks-to-drm-080913/

The second article is about the most anticipated game, Spore. Someone leaked it on Torrent resulting the game to be downloaded and played by more than 500,000 people around the world. Imagine how much the company that produced the game had lost because of this. Usually as a user, we will not care about all this but imagine some day in future, you've put in a lot of effort and hard work to come with a game which is supposed to be the hit of the year and few months before the game was launched, your game is already available for download online and free of charge. All your hard work and effort is paid with nothing.

I am a gamer myself and I know developing a game is not an easy task, what more a good game. I do not download the games from internet illegally like most people do. I hope that other gamers out there will take my heed too. Stop downloading it illegally online or else one day, they might just stop producing quality games for us.

what cause online piracy??

noreply@blogger.com (Tee) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Online piracy is harmless? For creator, they will said no!! For others, they will said Yes!! obviously is harmless!! Why for creator it will said no? because, they cant get any money if online piracy happen. User just download, download and distribute to their friend, share with friends. For others, yea!! download, listen, free!! high quality!! download the entire album just need 30 minute, but if i drive to any Shopping mall to get it cost me RM49, and i need take 30 minute time to travel, it waste my petrol!! actually creator should lower down the price so that all of the teenager can afford to buy. Secondly, i think all the music industry should work like what Apple iTunes doing. You can listen the chorus part of the music, and only decide whether buy or not buy. It not require you to buy the whole album, but u can choose only a song or which of your favorite song. If music industry, film industry do this, i think most of the consumer will spent their money to buy. Because sometime is not worthy just because of a song and consumer spent the money to get the whole album. Therefore, creator and music industry should considered to let consumer choose which album to get.

Environmental Factor?

noreply@blogger.com (Ricky) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:26:00 +0000

CartoonStock
[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mfl/lowres/mfln199l.jpg

Do you agree with me? Yes? No?

Petrol price increment few months ago resulted almost all the product prices to increase as high as possible. Few months later the petrol price drop back to normal, but do the product prices drop as well? The answer is NO!!!..now the FMCG, entertainment and almost all routine products price still as high as the Fraser Hill compare to price in few months ago.

Monopolists of the routine product are getting richer with the price increment but not the citizen. Monthly income that never increase but the price still expensive after those period, how do citizen survive with such price increment? The increased of the product price, people intend to try to buy a product for lower price, so, the online piracy and pirated products are getting popular.

Anti-Piracy organization often held anti campaign to urge the citizen for not support the piracy. Why don't they fix the tax system, salary system, product price system instead of standing at air-con hall to urging people to stand away from piracy.

With the economic crisis now, people tend to support more on piracy. Low monthly income, high demand of the price in FMCG, entertainment makes people cant afford to buy the genuine products.

Solve the basic factor of the piracy so the piracy issue will slowly decrease too.

Somebody do something

noreply@blogger.com (kRaZy) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:48:00 +0000

Online piracy is something that is considered as a serious matter in most countries and people from all stages are doing something to stop online piracy such especially in the US. There will be celebrities using their "celeb power" to persuade their fans all around the world to go for original. Producers and big organizations will try and come up with some ways to stop people from downloading illegally. I found a video by the title of "Online Piracy PSA Parody"on YouTube. It is someone doing something to persuade people to stop downloading online illegally. Have a look :

Wonder when will we Malaysians come up with something like this, or perhaps an anti online piracy campaign?

Teenager addict to online piracy

noreply@blogger.com (Tee) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:21:00 +0000

This few days, i can always heard from my friend they are watching a hong kong drama name "The gem of life". But, all of them are download from a website, in the moment, i know that, online piracy is getting serious and serious. New album of Jay Chou just release 2 month ago, i still remember, there is a lot of people queue to get the album on the days release, but, i just received a phone call from my friend, they told me, just download from internet, it free, and the music are high quality. Nowadays, 9 out of 10 college student are involve in online piracy. Who we should blame on? We should blame on the album or movie is selling at high price, or we should blame that student want save more money for their pocket money. This is a very subjective question. Hope you all can figure it out and leave your comment here. But, there is still have some people don't have the knowledge of computer, therefore, they are hardly involve in onliine piracy. If you imagine, everyone know computer very well, even the old uncle drinking coffee in the kopitiam know how to use computer, i can very sure, they can get the top rank award to involve in illegal downloading. I think teenager figure this by themselves.

Soul Killer + Sadness Trigger = ONLINE PIRACY

noreply@blogger.com (Ricky) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:02:00 +0000

Although online piracies had provided benefits to people in various sectors, but it still illegal because it is other's product and hardworks. Imagine your own work, own creation has been used by others without your permission. Then they use it to earn profits and you ain't gained anything from that, what is your feeling for that? I'm sure you will fed up or angry for that particular incident.

As my experience, I, myself is planning to join a video competition soon, and the preparation for the films are killing me. Although it is an easy task for some of the people for a short movie in just 15-25mins, is that simple for some people? Try yourself and imagine yourself then you will know what difficulties you'll face. Now I know, those people who create a particular films, audio, books, software that contributed almost all their soul and time into a product. Everything in the products has their own blood, their own sweat, their own efforts and their own soul. Do you agree on that?

Last time I was thinking that movie production is not that difficult due to massive manpower joined into the process to make a 1hour 50mins movie. But once i involved in this field, and i realize, it's not the manpower problem, but it is effort and time matter, it is not an easy task. Normally they used 2-5 years for them to produce a fine 2hours movie in Hollywood, Hong Kong and even Bollywood with a lot of money involved. They are professional.

Completed movie or products seems like a satisfaction, a soul, a art, a monetary trigger (which they reserve for that) for owner and creators. We should feel sympathy for them with the popular crime in the internet misuse their products.

Music still facing Online piracy CLICK HERE [PDF]

Online Piracy is not 100% negative

noreply@blogger.com (kRaZy) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:23:00 +0000

I've found an interesting article on online piracy just now and I would like to share it with all of you.

Can internet piracy result in more and better movies? "Of course, not!" is probably our stock reaction. By illegally downloading and sharing films, pirates steal the revenue that would otherwise reward and encourage film-makers--or so we are told by lawyers, economists, and lobbyists for Hollywood studios..more (http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/node/719)

Most of the time whenever we see the word online piracy, it is usually associated with all the negative effects BUT for the very first time, I'm actually reading an article that says that online piracy is good.

It is good in a sense that it helped a small Indie film to go BIG on the screens of America. This shows that online piracy can actually play a role to "promote" small movies. Everything has its pros and cons, although online piracy has brought a lot of loss and harm to the entertainment industry but there are people who benefited from it. Could there be a chance that online piracy can actually be something that can benefits everyone if used in the right way? Feel free to leave your comments on what you think about the article and if you agree or not.

The cause of online piracy!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Tee) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:17:00 +0000

WHY ONLINE PIRACY IS SO RAMPANT?? Now as long as we got the computer, we will download some movie, drama, music, software. This is for our entertainment. The main reason is because, it too easily available. Now we can use some client to download whatever thing we want, it very convenience to user, therefore, that is the main reason of the cause of online piracy

Secondly is because, partial file download, for example, human can download only their favourite song instead of purchasing the entire album. Some people they only like one or two song of the entire album, and they force to buy the entire album. So, because now is too easy to get music, therefore, they rather download from the internet, without the permission.

Thirdly, Music, video, and software is easily transferable. We can use some instant messenger to transfer the file to our friend or family, it too easy to share out. If you bring a laptop to starbuck coffee shop, u also can transfer the file to your friend using web client of some instant messenger as well.

Lastly, the last reason of cause online piracy is because it FREE!!! People will choose to save more money instead of spent their money to buy from the shop. This is the few main reason cause of online piracy!!

Help Kids Avoid Online Piracy& Illegal download

noreply@blogger.com (Tee) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:35:00 +0000

Kids! They can be heaven sent or maybe hell spawned in the world of multimedia, knowingly or unknowingly they might download files that are illegal sourced from the Net. As the proverb goes "Prevention is better than Cure" which applies to this case, parents should keep an eye (maybe both eyes!) on what their kids are doing online. These are some of the chilling facts that parents should keep in their mind when kids are surfing the Net.

Online piracy is stealing(means the felon will be arrested)
According to the US copyright law, a fine of USD 30,000 will be given
Unwanted exposure to virus or trojan horses that will compromise information
Risky exposure to unwanted spyware which compromise personal information that might lead to identity theft

Once you explained the risk of the piracy to your children, you may still want to keep an eye on what they did with the computer like,

Keep the computer in living room, and set a time for your kid to use the computer, and make sure they understand what they can do, and what they can't do.
Use some web service can allow you to keep track of your child online activities.

Window vista/xp allow you to create multiple account in a computer. Everyone can log in separately. As a parent, they should hold the administration account. Which allow full control the computer , and give children a limited User account.

Show your children how to download legally. There are many website, that your kid can download free, or for a low price. For example, itunes offer each song for USD 0.99 only.

Microsoft

[online] Retrieved 1st February 2009

URL: http://www.microsoft.com

Why Online Piracy Getting Popular Among Internet?

noreply@blogger.com (Ricky) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:26:00 +0000

Thinks that this topic same as previous post? Read first....

Online piracy is getting popular nowadays. They publish pirated music, video, software through the internet because they want to make their website to become "hotspot" for their home page. The word "hotspot" means favorite web page among the others. More user visit the web page, means more circulation for the web page, more circulation means valuable and the factor begin, is to earn money.

How they earned money through web page? Thing that familiar among us, Advertisement.
For the advertiser's mind, if website is very popular and a lot user surf to the page, means the impact is more effective. All of you can see those websites that published pirated products, their web pages normally came together with the advertisement. Do not believe? Try yourself.

These days, people are getting smart, they using free forum and allow third party to upload the pirated videos, software, musics. Why they are doing like that? It is because they will not get involve into any lawsuit in the future. Don't understand? It means if a particular products author, owner sue the forum owner, they can give reason that the pirated products are not published by them. Some more the forum registered members do not need I/C to apply for the membership. So, advantages sided on internet users, forum owners but not the product authors.

Money come by $0.01 to $1.00 per user surfed to the particular web page depend on country/advertiser. Imagine, there are 1000 users surf to the pirated published website per day/week/month. How much is that? Count yourself.

*More facts to come, stay tuned in this blog :)

How to Prevent Online Piracy

noreply@blogger.com (kRaZy) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:01:00 +0000

Well in our previous posts we have told all of you about what is online piracy, so in this post I would like to share with you readers on how to prevent online piracy.

Let's say you have a file which is created by you and you would like to share it with your friends online but you do not wish your masterpiece to be misused by other users.

Tip #1: Upload it at websites that are trusted only. Remember to add in password to accessed the files so that only users authorized by you will be able to download the file.

Tip #2: Remember to write in details to the files such as produced by who and others so that the credits will go to you.

Tip #3: Add on watermark to you files to prevent people from spreading the file without permission.

Those are some of the suggestions on what you can do to prevent online piracy. If you have any other suggestions please feel free to leave a comment thank you ^^

Why Online Piracy Getting Famous?

noreply@blogger.com (Ricky) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:37:00 +0000

Online Piracy is getting famous because consumers want only the musicals, films, software but not the price. The price of the original copy would be very expensive, resulted public can't afford to buy the product. So, online piracy began.
Besides that, if someone intended to buy a original films, musicals or others, do they really own a original product from a outlet? There's a probabilities that some outlets are using original price to sell not original product to public and cause the public disappointed on the product and so the online piracy started as well. Sometime, we can't blame all to the internet users, some of them might not be wanted to do like that, but the environment forced them to be like that.
As computer user's knowledge, a original software would cost them so expensive and also need to pay licensing fees for mass usage in a company. Imagine how much do the software total price cost?

*For example, lets count total amount of software needed for a house with 20 students.
if a original software cost RM2500 + licensing fees per computer RM100 x 20 = Total RM5500.
*The information and prices provided in example part is for examples purpose only.

In the past few years, efforts to stop online piracy 'pointless' due to massive internet users in the online world. To handle this problem in the future, we need solid, massive support from all sectors including the internet service providers.

Is Online Piracy Beneficial to the Users?

noreply@blogger.com (kRaZy) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:17:00 +0000

The title of this post was the question we asked last week in our poll. The result shows that 50% of them thinks that online piracy is beneficial to them, 12% said no and 37% of them thinks that online piracy might be beneficial to them. From the result,we can clearly see that most users seem to agree that online piracy is beneficial to them regardless it's illegal.

Most people of Generation Y are computer literate. This is the reason why online piracy is much more popular and preferred by people nowadays. It's so simple, just get the sources for "free downloads" and with just a few simple clicks you can get what you want. Besides that, downloading from the internet is totally free while you need to pay if you are getting a pirated DVD from outside. The only thing we need to pay is our internet and electricity bills, agree?

Online piracy is more popular because it is harder to trace the person who has committed it, and the authorities are more lenient on the laws imposed for online piracy compared than piracy in real life. For example, you can easily track where your friend bought the pirated DVD from but it's not easy for you to track the original source for a movie that you friend downloaded from the internet because it might have been passed around through hundreds of people.

We should not be abusing the internet to do illegal things that will harm others. Most of the offenders are teenagers and young adults such as students. Although there is a saying that "Sharing is Caring" but we must be careful on what we are sharing. Sharing things that are gained through piracy is definitely not caring.

This is an image that I've found on the internet and I quite agree with it so I'm posting it along to share with all of you. Do you all agree or disagree with this quote? Feel free to leave your opinion or comments ;)

Piracy violated COPYRIGHTS, What? Who? How?

noreply@blogger.com (Ricky) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:37:00 +0000

COPYRIGHT? Is it means by "I May Copy It, Right?" NO, its NOT!!!
Lots of people know the meaning of COPYRIGHT, but do they really know?

Here are some basic information about COPYRIGHT......

"WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?"
Copyright in relation to musical, literally, film work is the exclusive rights which the owner has over its use and his entitlement to rely on the law to prevent others from using such work without his/her consent. The Copyright Act of 1987 defines copyright in relation to a works as being the exclusive rights to:

reproduce a work in any material form;
communicate a work to the public;
perform, show or play a work to the public;
distribute copies of a work to the public by sale or transfer of ownership;
commercial rent a work to the public

"WHO OWNS THE COPYRIGHT?"
The author of the work is the first owner of the copyright. However, where the work is written by an employee in the course of his duties, then the employer is regarded as the legal author of the work. On the other hand where the making of a work is commissioned and in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, the author and the ownership of the copyright by him is only surrendered if he should assign his exclusive rights to the commissioning party.

"WHAT IS THE DURATION OF COPYRIGHT?"
Generally speaking, copyright in the work subsists during the life of the author and seventy (70) years after his death. As regards a work of joint authorship, the life of the author who dies last is used for the purpose of calculating copyright duration of the works.

"HOW IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGED?"
The copyright in works is infringed by a person who, not being the owner of the copyright, published, sales, modification without permission of the copyright owner, does or causes any of above mentioned acts controlled by copy right under the Copyright Act of 1987.

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Malaysia: Piracy King?

noreply@blogger.com (kRaZy) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:34:00 +0000

Perhaps most of you do not know about this, but Malaysia has the reputation as one of the leading country for piracy worldwide.

Don't believe me? Have a look at the quotes below:

1) "Most pirated discs are made at Malaysia's licensed factories," said James Wise, an anti-piracy expert in Hong Kong for the International Recording Media Association in Princeton, New Jersey.

International Herald Tribune, Pirated discs thrive in Malaysia,
[Online], Retrieved 16th Jan 2009,
URL: http://www.iht.com

2) "In the past, Malaysia has been perceived as a leading exporter of pirated VCDs and DVDs and I am deeply concerned about this allegation," said Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry Datuk Shafie Apdal.

The Recording Industry Association in Malaysia, Pirated CDs, New law to punish building owners,
[Online], Retrieved 16th Jan 2009,
URL: http://www.rim.org.my/

3) "Malaysia is considered to be the world’s largest exporter of pirated discs. Pirated discs produced in Malaysia have been found across Europe, Asia, Latin America and, most recently, in South Africa."

Tech Shout, Malaysia receives warning over pirated CD's,
[Online], Retrieved 16th Jan 2009,
URL: http://www.techshout.com/hardware/2005/08/malaysia-receives-warning-over-pirated-cds/

Without realizing, most of us contributed to the "Pirated Country" reputation Malaysia is getting actually. Most of us download songs, movies, games and even comics from the internet without the permission of the owner but no one care because they wouldn't mind if they can get what they want for free. All of these are actually an act of piracy. Besides that, sending those songs or movie clips that you've downloaded without permission to your friends is almost the same as distributing pirated goods.

Would you like to be known as a citizen of the world's famous Pirated Country? Seriously after reading all the articles I really have to think twice before exposing my nationality if I ever meet a foreigner -_-" Imagine if this happens one day:

Foreigner: Hi, nice to meet you. Where are you from?

Me : Well I'm from Malaysia, have you heard of it?

Foreigner: Oh ya I've heard of your country. It's the leading country for piracy right?

Me: Errr... *speechless*

What will you feel if this situation really happens one day? Don't keep the "this-will-not-happen-to-me" attitude because you will never know :) time to do something Malaysians