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Piracy is nothing but stealing. Stealing is taking away what is not yours. Ergo, stealing is bad. If piracy is stealing then, piracy must be bad. This is a demonstration of logic at its finest. Those who take Philo 101 should make use of this syllogism.
They said that buying pirated CDs and VCDs (and now we have DVDs also pirated folks, here's a salute to Filipino ingenuity) makes us participants of the 'crime' since we know in the first place that the loot we buy for P50.00 are 'hot' items. Patrons of these items, like the pirates themselves, are also accountable in the eyes of the law, in the eyes of God and most of all, in the eyes of those filthy rich producers.
I totally agree that stealing is bad. I feel for the victims of these injustices, namely producers and artists who invested their blood, sweat and tears and expect that their hard work will make them richer at the expense of their fans, who in turn will be poorer by P450.00 or more. Justice has to be served.
Piracy is bad because it entitled our poor brethren the right to entertainment. The underprivileged has no right whatsoever to be entertained because they do not have money to buy their CDs or VCDs. How dare them. It is imperative that for us to have the privilege to be entertained we should have the prerequisite of having money amounting to more than P450.00 for us to enjoy their work. This is nonnegotiable. However, due to rampant growth of the pirates like fungal infections, they have to tow down their prices in order for them to compete with the pirated products. Yet, the ungrateful consumers still prefer the P50.00 product over the P250.00 or more thing.
Piracy is bad because it forced the artists to go down from their castles to mingle and rub elbows with the commoners. Of course for them to have a credible campaign, they now have to let us feel that they are 'one of us' and we should give our full sympathy to them because 'one of us' is a victim of an injustice. Before, they would just ignore the sweating, screaming fans into inexistence but now, they have to... gasp! ...talk and ... even more gasp!... mix with the crowd. To add the agony, some artists have found their vices of whatever nature (from liquor, to substance, to golf or whatever) hard to sustain. Oh those poor artists.
Piracy is bad because it forces the composers and artists to be more creative. Usually, a P450.00 CD will contain three, or four at most, chart busters and the rest of the songs are, well...crap. The logic behind this is that they'll put the other chart busters into other CDs so that consumers are encouraged (the more politically correct term is 'forced') to buy that CD also. Ergo, more revenues. However, piracy has this wicked tendency to put all the chart busters into one compilation. Obviously, this is a bad deal for them.
Piracy is bad because the pirated goods are of poor quality. There is truth to that. With P450.00 you get a good quality copy of a CD or VCD but in pirate stores P450.00 will entitle you to a trial and error game for 8 CDs/VCDs. You just have to strike a deal with the tindera that if the product is substandard, you could trade the merchandise. And mind you, there is no limit to this exchange deal. As long as you could prove to the tindera that their goods are defective, you could play this game anytime, all the time.
Piracy is bad. No doubt about that because it is stealing. However, I guess most of you guys would agree with me that piracy only did badly to the producers not us consumers because this bad episode of theirs gave us consumers' freedom out of their monopoly of entertainment. This made them aware of our wants and not theirs. We are the customers; we have to be served right.
The piracy issue is about to close since the government has increased its efforts in cracking this issue. Honestly, I don't know whether to cheer or to be sad in this news. Be as it might, piracy will be wiped off one of this days and it means the end of our shopping spree of eight discs for the price of one. But one thing is for sure, I have to thank the pirates. Not for their intent to steal, of course, but because they have rocked the boat and made those recording outfits realize a thing or two.
Thanks, Robinhoods.
( 1:54 PM )
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