3 things the government doesn’t get about piracy
1. piracy isn’t stealing. there is an economy around it. people do pay for pirated goods. the take away? there is a price point consumers are willing to settle for. there is money to be made. obviously VERY good money, going by the never declining number of pirates.
2. pirates are early innovators in the retail space. they understand how and what consumers want to buy. and they understand how to get it to them. setting up kiosks at the pasar malam with laptops and sideloading ringtones to kids in attractive bundles is something the music industry could have thought of first, if only they understood their own consumers. but that’s asking too much…
3. piracy fuels the economy. how many young malaysians graduate every year thanks to affordable software?
i buy the software i use. original. i can afford it. my business makes money. i support innovation in the software industry to enable me to keep doing what i do. for everything else there are open source alternatives. i am not condoning piracy.
i am questioning the governments understanding on piracy, and why it even exists.
