U.S. Puts India on Watch for Piracy

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The Bush administration has placed China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Egypt, India, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela on a "priority watch list" for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy. The 12 will be under extra scrutiny and could eventually lead to economic sanctions if the administration decides to bring trade cases before the World Trade Organization. Another 31 countries were placed on lower level monitoring lists, indicating the concerns about copyright violations in those nations did not warrant the highest level of scrutiny. The designations occurred in a report, known as a "Special 301 Report," that the administration is required to provide Congress each year highlighting problems American companies are facing around the world with copyright piracy, which they contend is costing them billions of dollars in lost sales annually. "We must defend ideas, inventions and creativity from rip-off artists and thieves," U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab said in a statement accompanying this year's report.

Representatives of U.S. companies applauded the new administration report but Oxfam America denounced the administration: "The report ignores important international agreements signed by the U.S. government ... which clearly state that developing countries have the right to place public health and the public interest over intellectual property rules," said Rohit Malpani, a policy adviser with Oxfam.

Neil Turkewitz, an official with the Recording Industry Association of America, said the administration was right to single out China and Russia for special criticism in the report. Dan Glickman, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said the new report indicated "the scope of global piracy and serves as a sobering reminder of the challenges ahead."
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U.S. Puts 12 Nations on Watch for Piracy (Update)
 
Its about time! :rofl:

Wait a sec.. did they put THEMSELVES on top of the list first???? :rofl: :rofl:
 
The Bush administration has placed China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Egypt, India, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela on a "priority watch list" for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy.
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Rightfully so.

The piracy in US is nowhere near bad as it is in India, China etc. Whatever damage comes from torrents, is made up for, as piracy there is only available through the internet only.

In here, you have internet+shops on streets openly selling all the pirated stuff which accounts for the major source of piracy in India. The internet and bittorrent isn't a big deal.
 
What we are all waiting to see is what the official response to this is ?

Will they make ISP's police their users ?..but we know that only 3% of the population here is online, so in terms of numbers, it would be taking a sledgehammer to kill a fly.

No, the comon man can get his fix far easier than that and does even need to have a computer.

In Bangalore there are routine busts of pirated markets..stays closed, then re-opens again. You get the impression that the ppl behind those markets pay the cops to leave them alone.
 
Its just not movies, music and software. There are many other things to it. Like, look at the brand value of JanSport in India. Im sure many ppl wont buy their products as any falthu bag in the Indian market has JanSport printed on it.
 
Youa re talking about counterfeiting here (its stil copyright tho)...im not sure we do that to the industrial extent that China or Turkey do.
 
^ The original article talks about copyright violations which I think also includes manufactured goods.

Usually for such goods manufacturers, they take a double beating. Firstly, someone is using their brand name to sell cheapo stuff and secondly, by the time they enter the market their brand value would have taken a toss and they wont be able to even sell genuine goods.

On the other hand software and media companies either have a sale or dont have it. Or maybe its a good tool to popularize once product ;). Thats what someone @ M$ said right, that they would prefer a user using a pirated version of windows rather than some other OS.

Sorry ppl its getting longer, but have to mention this one:

If you see the list of countries, Its clear that US is having a hard time entering these economies (or having problems in few of them). Every time they talk over opening certain sectors they are failing. It might (IMO 'is') just a pressure building exercise.
 
Although to be clear I am not legitimizing or showing approval of.... the average wage in China is so low... people cannot afford to buy software at the outrageous prices some of these software companies charge. This is why Piracy is so huge there.. it is the only way that people can obtain software at all.
 
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