Piracy
and plagiarism basically are the two same things, what makes them different is
just the pirated material. Technically both of them are like stealing someone
else’s work without any permission. Even
most of people they did not realize if they ever done a piracy from any material
like music, movies, and many more
According
to Chalkey
(2012, pg. 237) "pirate or piracy is the act of copying material that we have
not paid for. It can be for personal use or in some case, commercial gain. For
any motivation to do pirate, the most common one is for personal use and share
it."
So
why people do pirate because it is free and easier to get, people will always
think that. Why should they spend lots of money if they can get it free. People
do not need to go to any store and spend their money to get what they wanted. But
piracy is piracy for any reasons. Another
reason people do pirate is because everyone else is doing the same thing and people might think, if nobody see them do it so there
is no way they can prove anything from it.
There is a study that been doing research about piracy towards some countries specifically around 2011, that stating there is 62% of Central and Eastern Europe doing piracy as the highest presentation of other counties. http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/
For those remixers like mashup artists, DJs, pastiche and bricolage producers and digital media artist, well we could not just call them as doing pirate because in this art and music industry I believe there is an influence between each artists or each songs from the idea, genre, style or anything. So we cannot really call a mashup artists, DJs and others are doing pirate or plagiarism as long as they give credit to the owner or write the original song in order to give respect for the owner.
Different in Indonesia, lots of artists like singer they do plagiarism the song, idea, or even dance choreography from artists other country like K-Pop or whatever it is. (I do follow some news in Indonesia sometimes)
Talking about piracy, and since I'm from Indonesia as well I'm not sure piracy is a big deal here in Indonesia. If you guys want to know, Indonesia is like doing huge huge piracy. Just want to share like, there are lots of place like in Indonesia they are selling lots of copied CD and DVD, movies and music and sell it with very very cheap price it is like Rp7,000 which means about 7cents. Makes me even confuse consider it as benefits for me or what.
Chalkey, T 2012, 'Technology, Piracy, Creativity and Ownership', Communication, New Media and Everyday Life, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne.
The Software Alliance 2012, 'Global Software Piracy', retrieved 22 August 2013, http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/
Hello,
ReplyDeleteYou have a provided a very detailed and interesting post.
You make a very good point when stating that many people that breach copyright or commit piracy do no understand that they are doing something illegal. However is this really detrimental to the multi-billion dollar music industries survival? I don't think so. I agree that mashup artist, DJs, remixers are not doing anything wrong as they give credit to the original artist ad i believe that it is these artists that assist with the growth in the music industry. Your discussion provides many valid examples but i find the indonesia copyright paragraph very interesting, are they considered pirates for reproducing this material? Great post.
Hey there,
ReplyDeleteYour response the this blog topic is very thorough and you make some great points. Piracy is definitely a global issue that creates cheap options for consumers not willing to spend the extra money, and creates a lack of profit for the legitimate organisations who are producing the real products. When I used to live in China, the amount of pirated CD's, Movies and products that were readily available in markets was astounding. I guess this can also be compared to Indonesia where you say that pirated movies and music sell at extremely low prices.
Great blog, keep up the good work.
This post is definitely a quick and easy read, you get to the points quickly and you reference the reading appropriately. My only issue would be the flow of the words. I’m guessing from your introduction post that English is your second language, so by all means you’ve gotten your point across really well. I just think that maybe next time you could get a friend to check over it to make sure that the blog post flows a little better. Nonetheless you did a good job in high lighting the facts and in referencing both the reading and modern experiences in your own life, good job.
ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed your blog post because you provided a clear discussion of pirates and plagiarism. You also demonstrated that a good understanding of them as you gave some examples and add video clip. Yes, in Australia, we can see easily that there are some Asian recording shops to sell the pirated movies, or CD’s at low prices. I guess the reason why people purchase the pirates products is the original is so expensive, therefore people look for it. Overall, you did a good job and wrote the post with clear definition of pirate, useful example, and also used relevant scholarly sources. This post was really easy to read! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Andres
ReplyDeleteThis was a good post. I think you were effective at getting all of your various points across to the reader, at times your sentence structures were difficult to follow but with English as a second language I certainly don’t hold that against the post. Your choice of quote was good, I did think it was a little long though and as relevant as it was, you basically let it speak for you when I think a more effective engagement would have had an explanation for the quote after. I did quite like the study you posted it added to your argument nicely, and it was great to see a youtube link which added to the post’s connectivity. Good work
Hi Andre,
ReplyDeleteit's quiet interesting reading your blogpost and you got some points that really strict and clear. i just wanna share my thoughts, Most of things i dont like the idea of pirating. But things where they make it so difficult or so expensive to get and arent always accessible to everyone.i could understand a bit. But I don't like though when someone pirates because they are too cheap to buy it. Usually when something is pirated a lot it means they have an issue, Since piracy has really caught on the music industry has been improving.
-Idrissa
Interesting take, Andre - drawing a distinction between piracy for personal, selfish gain and piracy for 'creative reasons'. Is that perhaps what you think should be used to draw the line between prosecution and allowable piracy? Eastern Europe seems to be a hotspot for digital crimes - why would this be the case? I'd love to see more journal articles on this topic.
ReplyDeleteAsia is famous for its pirated DVDs and CDs - do you see that as a harmless crime? Or is that a greedy selfish one - because they are making money of artists' work?
You keep to the theme well, although a greater focus on what the reasons or consequences of piracy in its current forms may be for the afflicted regions would be great.
- Ryan