Piracy laws in Malaysia...?

Question

I've never seen any vendors selling legal copies of games in the shopping malls over here, around Subang and PJ.

If shopping malls aren't supposed to be renting out their spaces to illegal VCD/DVD sellers, how come these people are still running running a business here?

Answer 1

For your information, there is a Act on this. Is known as the Optical Discs Act 2000. This Act came into force on September 15, 2000. Its states that ...

Licensing and manufacture of optical discs and requires any person who manufactures optical discs to be licensed. Manufacture here refers to the processes and activities involved in the making of optical discs including mastering and replicating or both. Optical disc means compact discs, digital versatile discs, laser discs and mini discs and includes items like compact disc-audio, compact disc-video, CD-ROM, CD-I, compact disc-photo and compact disc-recordable.

However, the software piracy is difficult to curb. You close them today, they open elsewhere tomorrow. These days, the pirates are even going mobile with their latest strategy with the use of mobile optical disc peddlars.

Have you ever visited China before? The situation is worst there.

Answer 2

It's a chronic problem in Asia, where the idea of intellectual property is weak. And very often, it is other Asian intellectual property that gets pirated.