Currently Russia and Asian countries are trying to make progress in the fight against piracy. In Russia and Asia there are the highest piracy rates and because this can hurt the relations with countries as the United States, these countries try to end professional piracy.
Also Malaysia has made some efforts to fight the professional pirates that sell and duplicate movies. The Southeast Asian country has one of the world's hottest piracy markets and plans to use a law against the pirates that has also been used against gangsters and pimps:
In a sweep up and down the country last year, officials seized more than 2,000 street vendors of illegal CDs, VCDs and DVDs. |
"There are about 500 of them (pirates) who are back and these are hardcore, repeat offenders," Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Muhyiddin Yassin told reporters.
"We are going to go on a major campaign with the police," said Muhyiddin, who said authorities were looking to give the police more muscle in the crackdown on piracy.
He gave no details on the plans, but police and ministry officials are set to meet next Tuesday for further discussions.
A senior police official in Kuala Lumpur told Reuters that Restricted Residence, or RR as it is known locally, was among the penalties being considered for intellectual piracy.
RR has been used against gangsters and pimps.
For the sake of the relation with countries with large software and entertainment industries it is very likely we will see more of these kind of actions. Read the entire story here.
Source: Yahoo.com
