---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shahidul Shuvra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/5/23 Subject: [bdresearchers] Cracking Down on Pirated Software users To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Group Members & My Readers, Immediate after joining US embassy at Dhaka as an ambassador James F Moriarty wrote an article in favor of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). My readers might see the articles published in English and Bangla daily newspapers. He wrote about Mustafa Jabbar and Tareque Masud as if he is a great user of Bijoy software and genuine fan of Tareque Masud's films. He is gravely concerned on our domestic Intellectual Property Rights Violations. He did not write any thing about piracy of international software and CDs. He knows well the voice against international software piracy will be rose when piracy of domestic hi-tech products will be ended. This is the software diplomacy to say against domestic software piracy to rise voice against international software piracy like Microsoft's products. It will not be hard for you to understand ending software piracy in Bangladesh is his one of the missions. Already letters from Copy Right Register's office were sent to some offices to remove pirated software and to install licensed software. Our government has been pressurized by donors, multinational companies, local companies and diplomats to start cracking down on pirated software users. Especially Microsoft is seeking way to recover their funded charity money from Bangladesh by businesses. Once free of cost Microsoft offered training to some government offices to build good relation. Few months back they trained SSF on information security. Already they established well connection among government offices and security departments. So this connection and well relation with authority will be used for raiding pirated software users. Soon taskforce will raid deferent offices with the people of Copy Right offices to arrest pirated software users, book and movie sellers. Another thing is that an office with international staffs will be launched here to monitor software piracy. So it is alarming for those people who use pirated software and pirated books for learning computer science. I do not want to include CDs of movies and songs with this issue because sudden banning pirated software may hamper our computer education and development activities. I am not great friend of pirated books, CDs and software; but I see the issue with critical eyes. This issue is complicated and thus we should foil any conspiracy to impose ban on pirated software hurriedly and without plan. Last year maliciously a group of people try to band us world fourth pirated software user. I am attaching the main report from US with this letter where you will find some of people exaggerated about Bangladesh. In fact, Bangladesh did no get remarkable place in the report. According to WTO we have option to develop ourselves by copying software till 2013 and we can also replicate pharmaceutical products till 2016. Our government should make a good policy and plan along with corporate houses, donors, businessmen etc for ending the pirated software installing. Our copy right office is full of inefficient people and so they are not competent enough to deal the complicated issue. I have more to write, but want to write after my readers' feedbacks. Best regards, Shahidul K K Shuvra The Independent, Editorial Department Editor of IT and Science pages Cell- 01715245459 8911919 (res) -- Best, Z [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
