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Pirated movie VCD had become a serious issue among the local and international production of videos and audios. It caused many disadvantages in nation development, economy and moral problems.

Effects:

The producer or creator of a movie will lose more money for each pirated is bought. The creators have done many ways to make people easier buy their products. The creators from other country sell their products through internet with cheaper price than the price which people buy in store. The artists cannot do anything else except keep creating other products. People should stop pirating the creator’s products because the creator did not get a cent from our purchase. People mostly lazy to buy the original DVDs or CDs, because the price is more expensive than the pirated and the stores are too far.

Pirated things can be the problem that could break the spirit of new comer musicians. If the new comer musician make good music but people do not intend to buy their original CDs, the musician will think that they do not get the people’s attention in music so they quit because they earn no money.

Those things will make our country’s economical condition go down because the people do not respect copyright of the artists’ product by buying the pirated products or download freely through internet. That condition will also make other producers and corporations lose a lot of money, so they cannot create another creation. Piracy really makes economic problem especially kill the artists’, producers’ and corporations’ creativity and spirit in creating, which is caused of no earning.

Another problem that is got from buying pirated things is lack of tax for our country. Tax is really important to develop our country. The value is so fantastic to be used for development. A lot of pirated CDs and DVDs cause government lose money from tax income, government lose Value – added tax, it is about 10% and Income tax it is about 15% from the DVDs, VCDs and CDs selling. That loss will make people by their selves lose many things, such as potency of jobs field. Jobs can make people get a better life for their selves and families and at the last will make strong Indonesia’s economy condition for every sectors. Buying piracy things will also lose affect the development of industry and technology. People also know that technology and science progress are affected from the fund and the fund source is from the government. So it means that tax give contribution also to the research for sciences and technologies. But, the fact is the government gets less tax because people prefer to buy pirated things than the original so the progress is slowing down. Industry could be obstructed by piracy problem that is caused by less tax to develop it. Many industries also need help from government to do their operations inside. So the progress of industries and technologies cannot be continued regularly without any tax from government. So government needs people’s contributions by buying original things in order to get more taxes.

There is another effect that is caused of the piracy. If the pirated products have been spread widely, the existence of the original products will decrease rapidly. That situation is also affected by the attitude of people who like to buy things with cheap price and also in a good quality. The decrement of original products existence will move fast while government’s effort to reduce pirated things is not worthy and people’s attitude become messier. It will cause many people become hard to get the original product because its position has been placed by the pirated products. Over the period people finally will be tired with the pirated products over their lives. They will ‘kill’ many producers, artists or corporations did for living. So the future is in this time people’s hand, what will this country is and when will this country grows. The answer will be good if people choose to use the original products to grow this land and nation.

The last disadvantage that people will get is moral problem. People cannot deny that doing piracy is against the law. The sellers firstly will get raid and after that they will get high fine form the government. Under the Copyright Act, The heaviest punishment that the sellers can get is jailed. People never think about the risks in selling the pirated DVDs, CDs or software. Buying and selling pirated activities will make the result. The results are a habitual, if people are used to buying and selling, people will forget how to appreciate each other. Appreciating each other is really important; especially appreciate somebody’s efforts or works. Appreciating somebody’s works could be in a form praising or criticizing, appreciating artists’ or producers’ works is in form of buying their original products. The fact is now people do not respect each other creation, people should be shame of that attitude. Attitude will grow to be a character. The fact is that nation’s characters are the reflection of the people’s behavior. Nobody wants to get bad recognition personally and even get characterized by other nations. The solution for this problem can come from to side, from the government work with producers and the people. The best approach for pirated things is top – down approach. The governments with the artists give the best price for the people. Government should response well the pirated things selling fast by giving high fine to make the sellers be wary. If the government makes a strict policy about piracy, so the people should support. People should stop buying piracy things to appreciate the creators and buy the original. People should not share their products through internet because it against the intellectual property rights. The best solution is that people should remind each other to stop buy the pirated things because people need full awareness about this problem.

General Ethics

In Malaysia, consumers always have the mind of thought that the effects of purchasing piracy things is not too tremendous and there is no punishment if they continue purchase on pirated movie VCD. Education which provided on the effectiveness and disadvantages on purchasing pirated movie VCD has to be improved by government. Pirated copies of movies is always been listed as cheap in consumers perception. To improvise this problem, the original copies have to fight against the pirated copies by decreasing the price to encourage the consumers to buy original.

We often see pirated CDs are selling at the night market or anywhere. Buying pirated movie VCD is an example of unethical activities in copyright ethic.

A guideline is needed to stop the current film industries from being exploited by replicating the originals movie VCD and selling them as pirated copies, this unethical behavior can be controlled by the code of conducts.

Under the Malaysia Copyright Act 1987, any individual charge with piracy will ne fine up to 10000 for each copy or up to 5 years imprisonment or both ( by PSA- public services announcements)

Posted by Chonghui