BF2S Forums U.S. Puts 12 Nations on Watch for Piracy

I'm surprised Germany didn't make the list either.

The countries placed on a lower-level watch list were Belarus, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, South Korea, Kuwait, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. any other country with highspeed internet

As long as we are going to have internet, piracy will continue to go on...

Havok wrote:

Cracking down on internet piracy is like cracking down on prostitution.  No matter what you do, people will still do it because it's cheap and gets you what you want.

Exactly. I've seen a 10 year old kid in India selling burned american cd's out of a little shack under a bridge. Beside him there was someone making "Nike" sneakers, and a bit further down the road there was a shop selling Beckham's kangaroo skin cleats. Police can try all they want, but nothing's gonna stop a kid from trying to fill his stomach with food.

And here I thought this was gonna be about actual high-seas, AK47-and-RPG piracy.

Fuck the RIAA and the MPAA. Fuck them right up their collective asses. With a goddamn hedgetrimmer.

ha,good luck Bush,you'll need it.i don't know a single kid in my high school that doesn't download their stuff.

S3v3N wrote:

We need to put ourselves on that list.



Internet Piracy FTW!

Seriously, I don't know many people that pay for movies or music anymore.  There's no way that some of those countries on the list don't get stuff illegally more than we do.

The government does a lot of things for the private sector.  Pressure is just the tip of the iceberg.

We go to wars for the sake of war profiteers, so this kind of thing just comes with the territory.

Sentinel wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

I can't believe Vietnam didn't make that list.

neither can i.


why dony they put every nation with a high speed internet connection on the list...

<BoTM>J_Aero wrote:

Yeah, when I get my torrent for Heroes every week, I'm pretty sure it comes up an hour earlier than it's shown in the US because they show it in Canada first. And those Canadian uploaders are very quick off the bat.

1. This isn't about internet piracy, per se. At least, not what you and I think of Internet Piracy. The US government is not criticizing governments for allowing individual citizens to download movies/music/games/porn. Rather, this report is about governments that allow large scale piracy to go on. Things like bootlegging CD's and DVD's via a glass master process, large scale software replication and distribution, etc. Despite what the entertainment industry would like you to think, piracy of the guy-sitting-in-his-bedroom-and-downloading-type is not their money loser. It's bootlegs that you buy on the street for $5.

Mekstizzle wrote:

Oh cmon now, the whole world is in with this. This is stupid. Who gives a shit about artists anyway, it's already known they make most of their money from sponsors and other shit and not from the actual selling of records and whatnot.

Artists don't make shit from sponsorships. That's athletes. Artists make money from CD/DVD sales, touring, and merch. And that's about it. If they're lucky, their music might get featured in a commercial or movie or tv show, getting them some residuals.

Now, do they make much from CD sales? No, not relatively. They make a little. But it's better than nothing.

cpt.fass1 wrote:

Ummmm I'm terrible sorry didn't read everything I have a bit of a headache.. But why are is our government Putting political pressure on other governments for a private sector?

Sorry to play nasty capitalist, but the government's job is to represent the private sector on the world stage. It does that, or the "private sector" has to build up an army to go abroad and defend its rights. And we can bitch and moan about the artifically high price of CD's and DVD's, and how the music cartels don't respect the artists, yadda yadda yadda, but the point remains that millions of Americans are employed by these businesses, and the government has a vested interest in ensuring that their way of life continues.

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