Comments on: Asia ‘pirates’ out of necessity, not choice

By: Thermonuclear Exchange - And you wonder why piracy is rampant here

Thermonuclear Exchange - And you wonder why piracy is rampant here — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:29:04 +0000

[...] good customers when we’re being denied to purchase something legitimately in the first place? Torrentfreak has a good article about [...]

By: nekostar

nekostar — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:52:56 +0000

quite frankly i think that there is no end in site to piracy – i think that the only thing that would stop the average joe is a monthly subscription for a reasonable price for all content ever made on demand.

By: Asia

Asia — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:47:23 +0000

You know something , and very probably you’re very clever, but you don’t tell the truth, or you don’t know much about Asia. Frankly I dislike your tone.
So I have my questions, first, why those company don’t sell their products as good as in US and EU? This is just a matter of money, or rather GNP and exchange rate. Profit is the only one they care about.
Second, Asia is much better than the past, but they aren’t as rich as their counterpart, like US and EU, you don’t know what is Asia! But this companies just demand the same rate! Do you know if we want to buy a copy of Windows XP, he or she should sacrifice at least one month salary(middle class, if he or she is a peasant, that maybe cost his or her the whole year’s income or even more!),
I dislike anyone who want to manipulate people’s idea like you, truth and lie mixed, you’re so clever.

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:04:40 +0000

A good article, there is no legal option here ! download is the only alternative. Also the cost needs to be considered if u gonna sell a windows copy for 150$ it wont be sold, bcoz here an average guy earns 200$/mo.

By: Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:06:17 +0000

What a crappy article, writer has no idea about the subject or the industry. Get a life….

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:05:22 +0000

Great article by the way. The only reason why there is no legal music downloading in Asia is exactly that there is no way for them to download even if they want to. I think all this is because of there government being so restrictive. Even if the Itunes, Yahoo, Rhapsody stores tried to get into Asia they wouldn’t be able to becasue of there retarded government. It is always hard to beat the price of free.

By: Smaran

Smaran — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:18:48 +0000

It’s not about being entitled to one. No one is demanding that companies sell their products in Asia. If they don’t, people will smuggle them in. That’s what’s happening right now. Because there aren’t any good music download services, people use the next best thing, P2P networks.

By: consumer_q

consumer_q — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:25:35 +0000

It is all about choice. No person is entitled to an iPod, or other Mp3 player, let alone a video game player, American pop music and film. No Asian society will crumble because the people cannot play Syphon Filter, listen to Brintey Spears, or watch Desperate Housewives.

Pitiful.