Music / VCD producers, In goa most of the music shops copy the cd's as soon as they receive the first copy & sell. The Video Library in Margao rents the copied vcd's. So Music / VCD producers please read the below article how the Bangladesh music producers fight piracy.
------------------------------------ Bangladesh music producers take law into own hands to fight piracy -Khaleej Times - U.A.E. 17 August 2006 DHAKA - Bangladeshi music producers have taken the law into their own hands to combat the rampant piracy that threatens to kill off the countrys recording business, industry leaders said. Producers have been forced to launch their own Movement Against Piracy campaign, raiding shops in the capital Dhaka and the southeastern port city of Chittagong to catch traders selling pirated CDs and cassettes, said senior campaign member Nazmul Haq. We had no choice but to take the law into our own hands as piracy has almost sent our business to the graveyard. Its (a) matter of life and death for us, said Haq, chief executive officer of music production company G-Series. Speaking late Wednesday, Haq said teams of music producers had begun visiting shops and telephoning police when they found pirated copies on sale. It was not immediately known if any charges had been brought. In our raids on shops in the countrys two major cities we found only one percent of the CDs and cassettes were original, he said. The rest are pirated. The technology has become cheap and easy and as a result almost every shop owner is engaged in this heinous copying business. The music industry in Bangladesh is worth around 200 million dollars. But original music producers account for only five to 10 per cent of the total market. Pirated copies make up the rest. The producers say pirated copies of their recordings appear in shops within hours of them being released. As a result, these days it is impossible to produce second or third editions of a hit music album despite the fact that the shops are selling millions of these albums, Haq said. Unchecked piracy has taken a huge toll on the industry and a number of established companies have already closed due to poor profit margins. In the last four years alone, as many as 10 big and respected companies have had to close because of piracy, Haq said. Bangladesh passed its first-ever copyright legislation in 2000 but the governments copyright office has only two officers to enforce the law in a nation of 140 million people. Abdul Gafar, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh, has described the countrys shops as flooded with pirated CDs, DVDs and software despite criticism from foreign investors. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
