Copyright or right to copy

Russia is one of the world's largest intellectual piracy centers. Local police are fighting daily against copyright violators. More than 4000 people faced prosecution for appropriation intellectual property of other people in 2007. Police confiscated pirated discs with the total cost of $US 6 mln. Estimated cost of equipment, recovered at underground factories, is tens of millions U.S. dollars. Although it is still very easy to buy pirated discs in any Russian city, it seems like their time is coming to an end.

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• Russia
• software
• piracy

[britishzip]

@JointBuster I visited Tatarstan, Russia and almost every single disc media I came across was "illegal", but nobody there cares ^^

[JointBuster]

i got so many games and movies from garbushka..

RT report is shit.. privacy prevails in Russia..

Garbushka is a central place..right? Kremlin isnt that far away..why Garbushka is open?

they have got discs that are called licensed..300 rubles and unlicensed cost 160 rubles...but the difference is of something like 4 dollars..there is no cracking down on russian pirate material..RT is full of shit..

i can order pirate DVDS off the russian internet like ordering pizza..Fuck off RT

[Pixelbuddy]

I saw Gorillaz D-Sides

[5687678]

I don't think copyright violation can come to a end that easy because it is also a business.

[TheSilhouette]

Oh, I see. You don't want to support the "American bloodsuckers", but you still want to watch all their movies, listen to all their music, and use all their software.

Sorry, but no matter how much you try to give some sort of moral superiority to what you are doing, you're still nothing more than a thief.

[Julik1]

good news

[MultipleEFP]

US economy is based on software, movie, music, entertainment and IT industry !

Than why should I support those american bloodsuckers if I can gat open-source and pirate versions of originals instead !

[neotoy]

The age of copyright is coming to an end..