"seize the day"
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oh, lord. piracy has been rampant throughout malaysia for the past decade or so...i started getting in on the craze when petaling street was selling all those pirated video cassettes...i still have a whole stock of them in the house, though they can't really be played anymore. then it was the vcd craze, which my family has oodles of. prices were lower than ever, from RM 15 for the videos, to about RM 10 and under for a set of vcds. and now, dvds...which i own as well. RM 15 for the fully menu'd, while RM 10 for the lower range. and i've just read in the news that they've seized about RM 22.5 million worth of pirated discs...i mean, geez, give us a break...i want pirated goods. it's an inevitable thing, and they're going to keep coming back...and have you ever wondered what happens to the stuff after they seize it? i'm sure that some of the "enforcement" officers pluck some off home. definitely. it's only human.
what irks me most is my current situation right now. i'm going to have to stock up on pirated goods and i have no idea how to, looking at how awkward my current financial situation is. anyone want to hire a young, aspiring slacker? i only slack in class, but i swear, i'm a hard worker. i've got great writing skills [i'm an "o"/"a" leveller, for pete's sake], and i'll work real hard. well, hard enough. no? well, just give me a buzz.
makes me think that i've never really put down my contact information here, have i?
so now what do i do? my favourite dvd place in atria has decided only to display and sell original vcds [they had a sopranos set that i so, so wanted], and i'm pretty sure that the authorities are going to come down hard on the guys who sell the games in the megamall. and ditto that for sungai wang. why couldn't they have cracked down on smuggled handphones first? the idiots. of all the stupid times when they had to make me spend a lot of money, it had to be now.
do they think that the people care about copyright infringement? do they think that we care if it funds triad activities? basically, the more we pay, the better they get. it sounds crude, but if people have free choice, then...what the hell is wrong with it? do they get anything from it? do the distributors of the original discs pay them truckloads to do what's right? do you think that the tourists who come here even mind?
"oh, honey, we shouldn't buy it because it's a form of copyright infringement...."
bullocks. they come, they buy, they conquer. piracy is itself a jack in the arm. in terms of economy, it's a multi-million business. the circulation of foods into this shadow economy, if you will, creates employment, jobs, and if you look at the frequency in which the money used to buy pirated goods is circulated, you'd wish that the rest of the country would be in on it.
want to know what to do? lower the retail prices on your original vcds and discs. lower the retail prices on your dvds and games. abolish audio cassettes. go all out for the promotion of cd-only material; no transitional storage mediums. as all this has shown, cds are utterly easy and cheap to produce. i don't see why original discs can't be as cheap. what, marketing and promotion? in malaysia? guffaw.
unless they want me to get an isdn/adsl connection and download ps2 games and albums and the like and then burn them onto disc.
what a bunch of idiots.
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oh, lord. piracy has been rampant throughout malaysia for the past decade or so...i started getting in on the craze when petaling street was selling all those pirated video cassettes...i still have a whole stock of them in the house, though they can't really be played anymore. then it was the vcd craze, which my family has oodles of. prices were lower than ever, from RM 15 for the videos, to about RM 10 and under for a set of vcds. and now, dvds...which i own as well. RM 15 for the fully menu'd, while RM 10 for the lower range. and i've just read in the news that they've seized about RM 22.5 million worth of pirated discs...i mean, geez, give us a break...i want pirated goods. it's an inevitable thing, and they're going to keep coming back...and have you ever wondered what happens to the stuff after they seize it? i'm sure that some of the "enforcement" officers pluck some off home. definitely. it's only human.
what irks me most is my current situation right now. i'm going to have to stock up on pirated goods and i have no idea how to, looking at how awkward my current financial situation is. anyone want to hire a young, aspiring slacker? i only slack in class, but i swear, i'm a hard worker. i've got great writing skills [i'm an "o"/"a" leveller, for pete's sake], and i'll work real hard. well, hard enough. no? well, just give me a buzz.
makes me think that i've never really put down my contact information here, have i?
so now what do i do? my favourite dvd place in atria has decided only to display and sell original vcds [they had a sopranos set that i so, so wanted], and i'm pretty sure that the authorities are going to come down hard on the guys who sell the games in the megamall. and ditto that for sungai wang. why couldn't they have cracked down on smuggled handphones first? the idiots. of all the stupid times when they had to make me spend a lot of money, it had to be now.
do they think that the people care about copyright infringement? do they think that we care if it funds triad activities? basically, the more we pay, the better they get. it sounds crude, but if people have free choice, then...what the hell is wrong with it? do they get anything from it? do the distributors of the original discs pay them truckloads to do what's right? do you think that the tourists who come here even mind?
"oh, honey, we shouldn't buy it because it's a form of copyright infringement...."
bullocks. they come, they buy, they conquer. piracy is itself a jack in the arm. in terms of economy, it's a multi-million business. the circulation of foods into this shadow economy, if you will, creates employment, jobs, and if you look at the frequency in which the money used to buy pirated goods is circulated, you'd wish that the rest of the country would be in on it.
want to know what to do? lower the retail prices on your original vcds and discs. lower the retail prices on your dvds and games. abolish audio cassettes. go all out for the promotion of cd-only material; no transitional storage mediums. as all this has shown, cds are utterly easy and cheap to produce. i don't see why original discs can't be as cheap. what, marketing and promotion? in malaysia? guffaw.
unless they want me to get an isdn/adsl connection and download ps2 games and albums and the like and then burn them onto disc.
what a bunch of idiots.
posted by funkyhippopotamus at
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