The picture on the left is the picture of Thai government is trying to crush piracy

Since last class that we talked about copyrights, it make me think about my country . As everyone knows, Thailand is a shopper's paradise. There are cheap copies of almost every designer product ever made. Especially, the market for pirate software is growing rapidly. DVDs and computer games are on sale on street stalls and in major shopping complexes. The more notorious of these are Pantip Plaza, Fortune Towers and Seacon Square, where authorised computer dealers and the pirates compete for customers.Digital films and videos sell for around 60% of the official price, computer games and software for about 50%.The greatest discrepancy is on Microsoft software which sells for less than 10% of the retail price.These massive savings attract a very large market. In Bangkok it is not just foreign tourists who are buying the pirate products on sale in the major computer centers.

The following problem is registered distributors in Bangkok selling computer software and DVDs estimate that pirate sales cost them more than 50% of their potential profit.

However Thai government try to eliminate this problem, they can never eliminate it completely. The only way to eliminate piracy is that the government has to attack it at source, but the problem is most of the pirate versions of CDs, videos, DVDs and computer games are not produced in Thailand. The best they can do is to find accessible level of violation. ,

This video below is the video of people selling DVD and PC games in Pantip Plaza Bangkok Thailand