Copyright Piracy in Asia - An Update

[Dale]

<em>There are those among us, even here at HDTV Magazine, who feel an injustice coming from the "draconian" copy protection measures being imposed upon us by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). We tend to think of the reason for those measures as not real and certainly disassociated from ourselves.

The following MPAA press release from Asia dated February 7, 2006 illustrates the piracy problem in that region of the world. The problem is not shrinking. With cheaper home use equipment pirates plunder. Not until the problem withers away through our collective self/social-discipline will copy protection measures be slackened. I know we will not argue over the value to an economic system of copyright laws. We may bicker over the length of a copyright grant and the language governing "fair use," but no thinking person would seek the end of copyright laws. </em> _Dale Cripps

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