Why is Malaysian keep buying pirated music ?
I actually wanted to buy a song or album from a legitimate online music store from Malaysia ...
So I tried Yahoo music, which is not available for people other than people from the USA and Canada market.
Then, I went on to try Apple's iTunes music store, which surprisingly to me that it is also not available for Malaysian.
The only option is to put a 'dummy' address, which I feel a bit weird of doing that.
Okay, I understood that they do it for a reason, in fact, it isn't available for all Asian country except for Japan. Malaysia is known for software piracy and there is a high possibilities that a single purchase would spawn into a million of free downloads. But practically, anybody can still purchase a CD and convert it to MP3 and then let it be downloaded for free. So, the policy is meant to be politically correct.
But it is frustrating to me because when I thought of obtaining a legitimate music from the Internet, I wasn't given much choices. And at the same time, pirated music sellers in Malaysia are exposed to the risk of being caught and getting jailed, for the reason that the authority is obligated to protect some business interests in Malaysia such as Song Music, BMG and etc. Check out this link. Comparing to the fact that there is no interest for authority to protect when it comes to software other than Microsoft and some bigger names.... because there is no local distributor around. So, nobody bothers to complain anyway. And yet, still I am literally forced to look for the 'alternative' per se.
Anyway, thanks to blogger liewcf with this entry, I found that there is a site called soundbuzz.com. There is in fact a Malaysian music store known as Music BlueHyppo, however there isn't much choices from the search. I couldn't find "Ryan Cabrera" and "Simple Plan". So, I gave up on it.
Thankfully, soundbuzz works.
Something to think about, how on earth do the users of iPod buy music from the Internet ? I am just wondering. I have always thought that iPod and iTunes go together.. now I know that there are iPod users who purchase pirated music from the streets of Malaysia and I couldn't quite blame them.
And the Malaysian government is thinking of improving the bumiputera ownership of the MSC cluster... while at the same time, the culture of high-tech is not fully matured.
I actually wanted to buy a song or album from a legitimate online music store from Malaysia ...
So I tried Yahoo music, which is not available for people other than people from the USA and Canada market.
Then, I went on to try Apple's iTunes music store, which surprisingly to me that it is also not available for Malaysian.
The only option is to put a 'dummy' address, which I feel a bit weird of doing that.
Okay, I understood that they do it for a reason, in fact, it isn't available for all Asian country except for Japan. Malaysia is known for software piracy and there is a high possibilities that a single purchase would spawn into a million of free downloads. But practically, anybody can still purchase a CD and convert it to MP3 and then let it be downloaded for free. So, the policy is meant to be politically correct.
But it is frustrating to me because when I thought of obtaining a legitimate music from the Internet, I wasn't given much choices. And at the same time, pirated music sellers in Malaysia are exposed to the risk of being caught and getting jailed, for the reason that the authority is obligated to protect some business interests in Malaysia such as Song Music, BMG and etc. Check out this link. Comparing to the fact that there is no interest for authority to protect when it comes to software other than Microsoft and some bigger names.... because there is no local distributor around. So, nobody bothers to complain anyway. And yet, still I am literally forced to look for the 'alternative' per se.
Anyway, thanks to blogger liewcf with this entry, I found that there is a site called soundbuzz.com. There is in fact a Malaysian music store known as Music BlueHyppo, however there isn't much choices from the search. I couldn't find "Ryan Cabrera" and "Simple Plan". So, I gave up on it.
Thankfully, soundbuzz works.
Something to think about, how on earth do the users of iPod buy music from the Internet ? I am just wondering. I have always thought that iPod and iTunes go together.. now I know that there are iPod users who purchase pirated music from the streets of Malaysia and I couldn't quite blame them.
And the Malaysian government is thinking of improving the bumiputera ownership of the MSC cluster... while at the same time, the culture of high-tech is not fully matured.
Comments
Some countries imposed ban on certain artist or tv shows or movies (iTunes store sells movies too), and Apple has to keep up with that.
Apple and Yahoo are just not bothered to follow through this things, this is why it's hard for them to have a truly global music downloading service.
It is really a complicated matter. It is different in europe because they have the "European Union" (EU) and shares the same currency, 'euro'. While in Asia each countries are to their own.
Our buying power here also isn't that strong, not many people here shops online as maybe compared to Japan.
Personally I wish iTunes store would open up to Malaysian too.
sorry for asking, but this wasn't stated clearly in the article.
So don't know.
http://store.apple.com/my/
I haven't tried yet.