Why Online Piracy Getting Popular Among Internet?

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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

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

Online Piracy

Online piracy refers to illegal copying someone work for personal or business use. It means to be like download music, movie, software, games, and etc. Nowadays, as long as we have the internet connection, as long as we have a computer, laptop or any devices can connect to internet, then we are able to download something from internet. It too easy to get music, movie, software, games, and etc from the website. Some forum they allow their member to share all the movie, music, software, and games also.

Online piracy is illegal around the world. Not only in Asia. Every country also have the same problem. Illegal copying someone work getting serious. Even a 5 years old kid also know how to using computer to download some music, and cartoon. It become an online dilemma. Although it benefit for some users, but, if everyone just download from internet, the composer will waste all his/her energy of creating work, and there is no money return at all, at last, i believe all the composer will give up creating work.

People who illegal copying work can also be sue by the owner. Therefore, think carefully before copying someone work for personal use or business use.

By,T