Asian pirates ring the changes
p2p news / p2pnet: “Anti-piracy operations conducted throughout the Asia-Pacific region by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in 2005 confirmed that movie pirates are significantly changing their tactics in an attempt to evade an increased focus on intellectual property crime by Asian law enforcement agencies and courts,” says Hollywood through its MPAA clone, the MPA.
MPAA is short for Motion Picture Association of America, and MPA is even shorter for Motion Picture Association.
“MPA operational results made clear that a shift is underway in many countries from large-scale production in optical disc factories using machines that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, to burner labs that can contain dozens of low-cost burners and are often located in apartments and small retail premises,” it says.
One of the MPAA/MPA’s owners is Sony, a volume make and seller of low-cost burners often found in apartments and small retail premises.
Meanwhile, “burner labs are inexpensive and easy to set up, and if raided, easily and quickly replaceable,” says a statement.
February 8th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
“burner labs are inexpensive and easy to set up, and if raided, easily and quickly replaceable,”
So they freely admit that they are waisting their time and our money trying to push the toothpaste back into the tube. DRM will only make using their “product” unsatisfactory for the average Joe. It will be cracked by the pros. They will never stop the counterfeiting of movies with this approach. Good product at a price that makes stealing it not worthwhile is the only real solution, and they could be making good money doing it that way.
February 9th, 2006 at 4:36 am
Unlike ordinary factories, the defense factories are not easily raided, because of their secret nature; and because they do not have orders for real defense stuff, the defense factories in Russia produce millions of CDs.