Monday, December 3, 2007
"Culture of Anarchy"...and Piracy stuff
I never knew that piracy was such a big problem in our world. We always hear about piracy in the United States and with the ability of people to sell things online in America I could see where piracy can be a huge issue for us. With overseas countries and even Mexico, I wouldn’t think that piracy and burned DVD’s and CD’s would be such a popular economy. For a country that does not have the technology to creat and produce movies the way Americans would, or a country that doesn’t have the technological advancements that our country has, you would think they would be researching how to catch up, not wasting their money on a small in-home burn station. Nor would I think that the amount of people buying from them would be as large as it is! When I think of places like India I think of a movie we watched in my images and experiences of childhood, entitled “Born into Brothels”. Two people from America go to Calcutta to film children that are raised in the red light district and grow up there under the rule of their parents. They are forced to cook and clean. They clean allot because they don’t really live in houses, they live in squares and have no running water and there is lots of drugs involved. Places like these I don’t see being the first people to spend their week’s wages on pirated music and videos. The part that interested me was when they were talking about how to stop this piracy. The author stated that this wasn’t stopped until there was going to be equal economies. Meaning United States would have to come down and India would need to go up. I guess the hardest part for me to understand, or maybe I am misunderstanding is that the technology is out there. It is not like it does not exist. It is the people of India and Mexico that have different priorities in their government system and they are not as focus on progression in the digital age as some other countries. Why is that fair then, because they choose to act on other matters, that they can copy and sell these electronic resources and their government just turns their heads. If they put an end to the majority of this piracy and black market economy they might have the opportunity to bring it into their own country and bring that revenue of CD’s music and DVD’s into the nation’s economy and not into the home pockets of its citizens so they can produce more. The government sees this black market as a means to keep their citizens content while they focus on other matters at hand. I think they need to put a stop to this and hir these piracy making people to work for the government and add a slight tax on the product and then the nations economy may have a chance at one day’s catching up to America.
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