Say no to piracy

I always oppose piracy. I Bought a legitimate gaming CD for PC in some furniture fair, and while trying to install in my PC, found that the CD had data corrupted either due to scratches or manufacturing defects. I had not kept the bill as the value was not much and could not track the dealer as the purchase was in shop put up a fair. Of course, CD had manufacture address, couriered them for a replacement. Neither did a replacement nor did they write a courtesy reply. I knew this would be the fate, still to give it a chance and spent on the courier.

The pirated music and movies are available at very cheap price at many places in Bengaluru. Police usually take action to stop it. May be for poor people, who would like to have entertainment, this is a way for them (even if piracy were not there, they would not have spent money on the originals). But what surprises is, the guys with enough income go for this. Worst is such pirated content is used by rental shops. The pirated content is usually bad in quality, as, usually they are camera copy or some kind of compressed version. Still people want them as they want to see the latest movies. Of course seeing latest movies, in their original form in theatres in another big headache in city like namma Bengaluru. Low number of good quality theatres, lack of online reservation, traffic conditions, etc make it to avoid to facing at them.

In Helsinki, Finland, the content (music) they use in shops/restuarents, will pay the originators (manufacturers) due amount for using it for public purposes. I gues it goes same with video rental libraries as well.

Another thing noticed, is for Kannada movies, the producers are not making any DVDs (at least for the hit movies), even after 2-3 years of release. Amruthadaare, is one exception, enjoyed it watching on my high performance panasonic home theatre + panasonic wide screen, high resolution projector.