Government is not going to do anything to curb piracy on its own. Government officials and their families themselves must be hearing pirated music and seeing pirated movies.
Should we initiate something to drum up support for curbing piracy? Should we initiate something on places like onlinepetition.com giving worrisome these details like you mentioned, and seek people to sign on it and when a respectable number of people sign it, then we can get it published on newspapers to prompt government to do something about it. There are lakhs of members totalling from here, from orkut arr groups, from facebook, and other places, I think many of them will promptly willingly sign on such a petition. I think even a single PIL (public interest litigation) in Indian Supreme Court might make the Judiciary considering issuing directives to appropriate authority to initiate action on this front. Side by side, may be, we can start a blog in which we enlist websites that are openly giving music/ movies files for download or giving links for free download. If any authorized agency does feel moved to do anything on this count, then such a list will come handy for them to start working, by making such sites delete their pirated content. I thing doing at least soemething is need of the moment instead of just lamenting here on the prevalent state of affairs. Mentioned above are some minimal things that we can do within our limited time and putting minimum money for this cause. Anyone willing to participate in this effort may please come forward. A core group needs to be formed first to coordinate on such efforts. I wonder if Vijay would like to volunteer for playing a key role in this effort. -- Rawat On 12/30/2009 11:27 AM India Time, _Gopal Srinivasan_ wrote: > You got one part of the answer right, not the other part. The reason is > definitely financial but it's financial feasibility and not financial > challenges. The age of the CD is over. A market like India was never > even there. The advent of unrestrained mp3 sharing on the internet and > the rise of the CD as a medium coincided in India. > > Let me give you a statistic, shocking but true. How many CDs of Slumdog > Millionaire do you think T-Series sold in India? All of 60,000. And > T-Series printed Over 500,000 copies. For all the chest beating that we > do on forums like this, the reality of the day is that nobody pays for > music anymore. Who in his right mind would want to invest > in manufacturing and distributing CDs upfront in such a market scenario? > How many CDs of the Telugu dubbed version of a massive flop do you think > will sell? 1000? Can you blame T-Series for not releasing the CD? Music > labels make money only off mobile ringtones and ringback tones and TV > and FM licensing in today's world. Whatever CDs they do release is > purely promotional expenditure, it generates paltry, if any, income for > them. > > There is minimal upfront cost in distributing mp3s through the likes of > Amazon. That is the route any sensible business would take. I would be > thankful that T-Series is at least progressive enough to provide us with > that option rather than not release anything at all. > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:10, Rivjot <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > It was up on amazon a while back, but will have to buy now, as CDs > are not going to be available. > > Can somebody please answer why many of Rahman music are not > releasing on CD? There are has been several instances in last few > months.. makes me feel there are financial problems (how can there > be financial problems associated with Rahman's music and how can > money get into the way of music?). I am extremely confused and very > eager to know the reason. > > Gops / Vijay, if possible, please give some explanation instead of > just saying "no physical CD release" everytime. > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>, Gopal Srinivasan > <catchg...@...> wrote: > > > > The soundtrack is available from > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002UDUU00/ref=dm_ty_alb > > > > There will be no physical CD release as things stand. > > >
