Piracy What’s piracy? In simple words, it a theft or robbery Includes unauthorized usage of material from the net, books, DVDs etc etc The rule is, you are a thief if you steal something no matter how small. Even if you take some thing from the leftover (e.g. dinner table) which otherwise would go into the wastage bin Well, you don’t have to be a Pirate of the Caribbean or for that matter Pirate of Somali. As ‘youtuber’ like me, one can be a pirate knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally, with clean mind or with dirty mind etc Youtube has such a programe/software that can almost instantly scan Your uploaded video contents for matching Ids or contents that belongs to third party or simply pirated. When I got a notification from you tube saying that my ‘Utorda Clip’ has a problem, I said to myself ‘what I have done now?’
At one time, I even doubted ‘Uttordd’ddekars’ Why some one will do this to me? Was the programe there owned by someone as in some Goan bands? I was only putting them on the world map.. and off course, providing a bit of entertainment.. Later on, I discovered I was wrong to blame anyone. It was the ‘sound track’ in tune with which the youngster were dancing on stage belongs to the third party (e.g. record Company) Similarly, a clip that I captured in 2006 on board Sunset Cruise too has a problem The most recent one being ‘Lord of Pearls’ Sept.2010 Even if your video contents or the sound track is of just a few second or even if it is of dead low volume eg. music playing in the background which you may not even aware of etc it can still be detected and you are notified instantly. See, one can still be a pirate innocently Talking about the Piracy that reminds me of a VCD promo Title ‘Piracy’ which itself had contents belonging to a third party See, what I mean? Following is a selection and may vanish if the owner complains Utorda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ooi5e2bZso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5HTNGVmZBc Salsa dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXNNTmTn2K4 Cashewnuts lord http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9bZcm4w1E 2010 Lord of Pearl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg54Nib-3OE 2006 dancing onboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRrPjRXyQjc I have about 14 of such problematic clips Plus 2 were removed (not by me but by a Goan Band Purple Rain, a clip that was captured during carnival panjim market Feb. 2009). Those are not into internet or those are fairly new to internet, there seems to be a trend or a wrong notion amongst them.. If anyone finds out there are some konkani clips on the net pirated directly from Konkani VCD, for them, the pirate is none other than the JoeGoaUk himself. 'JoeGoaUK' reminds them of internet, that's why. JoeGoaUK may be the first to promote Konkani video on the net but he definitely has no dirty mind particulaly when it comes to our own Goa or Konkani. In other words, he is not a hypocrite. 'If Calling a thief a thief really hurts the thief, how much it would hurt someone who is not really a thief? to continue...in Part II
