Wednesday, 14 November 2012
#9
Today I'm going to describe the differences in aspect of piracy in the USA and Russia. In the beginning of most DVDs you can see a video which tells you that the piracy is a kind of stealing. The stealing a product - a song, or a film, or any other stuff, rights on which belongs to somebody. In the USA there are strong laws and the system of punishment - one illegal song can cost you an astronomic amount of money. While in Russia there is no such a strength, which find and fine. Everything, which is not punished becomes normal. Likewise, there is a rule, which forbid swearing in public places. As you know, there are a few part of population compliance this rule. I think, there is no only nature difference between Russian and American people. The price is too high for Russia. Making a decision, a person solves a problem, what to do: to buy or to steal. He estimates, what is bigger: the price minus the good possession feeling of buying or the fine of being caught multiplied the probability of being caught plus negative feeling of stealing. Maybe if the price would be less, people would stop piracy.
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Sorry, I've just corrected one thing.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there seems to be more piracy in Russia, but I'm not sure that in America people refrain from doing it because of the fear of being punished. Most people don't really get caught for downloading pirated music or movies. However, in the U.S. there is less access to pirated media because the websites are shut down faster and the government goes after the producers of pirated material more vigorously. Once in a while you might hear of some rare case in the U.S. where an individual was prosecuted for downloading something illegally, but usually the government targets the source of the piracy. I'm sure that Americans would possess more illegally copied recordings if they were more readily available. The pirated stuff that we do have access to in the U.S. is often riddled with computer viruses, so a lot of people avoid it for that reason alone.
ReplyDeleteVladimir, you underlined very important distinctive russian institution. Everything what is not punished becomes normal. Many foreigners, who comes to Russia are very amazed when understand this. People are trying to find any holes in the law and use them in own purposes. What about piracy I think that no one law or government can fully protect property rights. It is highly depend on social norms and institutions. Till we don't understand and respect rights law is powerless.
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