Many of us felt that the existence pirated movies or songs be it CDs, VCDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays, has an impact to the entertainment industry.
The impacts negatively on the income of artist, movie directors, producers up to those BIG BOYS who invested their money in the entire production.

But I would say, looking at the other side of the same coin, the impact is very minimal, one obvious reason is that these "players" in the entertainment industry still make the $$$$$ and living a rich and famous lifestyles from luxury cars, big house, and some can even buy a private jets.

You are making the rich become richer, and you yourself become poorer.

If you read Robert Kiyosaki's book, the rich people will always has the law on their side, no matter what, they are all out to make money from all of us(me included).

Yes, you can be right to a certain extent, and we are living in Malaysia.
Most Malaysian consumers are the poor and middle income group and are very prudent in their spending, that's why you will find a mixture of pirated and original DVDs movies or game or titles PS2 or X-box in ALMOST every household in Malaysia. I am one of them, I buy original because as a consumer I want to support that actor/actress or singer to produce more movies or songs, and I also buy some pirated stuffs because I just want to listen or watch the content. Some of them, in which I find it good, I will go buy the original for collection.

RM100 for original blu-ray compared to RM25 for blu-ray copies of the same movie, which one would u buy? Not everyone of us here are as fortunate to always buy originals be it DVD or some other products.

I am sure you will agree with me, on such point that, do you want the fuel price to go up further say RM2.20 per liter or RM2.90 per liter? That's a BIG NO!! Right?

I can speculate those BIG BOYS up there has big influences to such extent whereby those producing originals and those making the imitation could possibly be the same group of people or they already knew each other, or even playing golf together, from the $$$$ they make from our spending.

The way I see it, there is a place for everyone, and therefore it should be a balance between them. Got good then sure got bad one, there is only a fine line seperates the good and bad. Got demand, then for sure got supply.

The rich will MOST of the time have the law siding them, or even the government siding them, to make $$$$$$ from the poor. They will hire the best lawyers to find a loophole in the legal system to make money, be it tax evasion or introducing a new product and using the law ensuring no one competes with them or stand in their way to take $$$$ from the poor. It's a conspiracy.

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Added on August 11, 2010, 9:21 pmI think I cannot tell much because of the lighting in the first 2 pictures, in the 3rd picture, I think the bottom one is REAL!!!

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Aug 11 2010, 09:21 PM