Comments on: MPAA in the Philippines

By: Privateer

Privateer — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:30:57 +0000

Most of the creative influences of our time came from pirated ideas.

By: Some Random Filipino Guy

Some Random Filipino Guy — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:54:40 +0000

Bwa ha ha. it’s been more than two years and unauthorized (aka “pirated”) copies are still flooding the streets. The mpaa is wasting its petty-cash.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:09:50 +0000

In the Philippines anyone with even some money can buy
their own police. You don’t pay for traffic tickets in court…
you pay right-there-and-then and off you go.
Usually very cheaply too.

Big music cartels can buy entire police departments there without even breaking their office petty-cash jars.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:07:32 +0000

My spouse is from the Philippines and this is absolutely true.
The police there make dirt for pay. They even have ripped
and tattered uniforms. Those disks will not be wasted, don’t
worry. ALL of the police and their families are listening to them
right now!
I guarantee it.
52 pecos = $1US currently

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:04:46 +0000

ha ha ha ha ha…..

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:24:57 +0000

Raids like this are done on a regular basis, but are quite ineffectual. They are usually done for show so that the MPA and the cops can say they’ve been doing their job. In reality, all those places selling pirated movies and music will be back in less than 2 weeks’ time.

The real problem is the source of the piracy. Most of pirated movies and music come from organized crime groups like the Chinese Triad (Chinese mafia) that are so powerful that most people don’t want to go stand up to them.

So if the MPAA/RIAA really want to change the way things are, they’ll have to find a way to take down organized crime…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:14:58 +0000

That’s because it’s obvious.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:24:34 +0000

“This, in turn, gives them an excuse to suborn national police and other scarce taxpayer funded resources in the name of the bottom line.”

You know, I’ve never seen this aspect of things mentioned aywhere else but on P2PNet.net

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:18:23 +0000

and the policeman whose offcial salary is not enough to eat will sell the confiscated disks, giving part of the money to the also underpaid coronel, whose salary is not enough to buy an automobile

they have a lot of practice doing this, with drugs

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:39:53 +0000

No no no, you’re forgetting how the cartels count stuff. Each of those 942000 odd discs was probly “worth” the 1.8 million US.

Then again there was probly only 18,115 discs but because the burning equipment had “52X” labels on them, the mpaa multiplied the number of discs by 52.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:36:01 +0000

most of these asian countires could careless about copyright law i am sure the mpa lobbyed hard for this broom. In most asian countries when the police do raid markets like this the person gets a fine like a speeding ticket and is back the next day. the one exception to this would be hong kong.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:22:35 +0000

Using their numbers as truth, that turns out to be ~US$1.91 per disc ?! Those things are cheap

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:24:05 +0000

I know what the MPAA can do with that “Big Broom.”

BTW, how much did it cost the Philippines National Police to enforce the whims of the MPAA? Though, in this case, it may be somewhat valid to fight the REAL (and only) piracy industry.