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ACCORDING to BBC News’ interview with Feargal Sharkey, a former musician in popular 80s band The Undertones, educating people about music rights is essential.
Sharkey notes that Music piracy is not a new problem and that people have been copying music since the day cassette tapes were introduced.
“Someone said to me the other day, ‘when I was young I’d pop the odd cassette over the garden fence to my next door neighbour’.” he told the BBC’s Digital Planet program.
“The reality is because of the modern world we live in, the next door neighbour’s garden is now global in size and populated by billions of people”
IN a media release from the Minister for Home Affairs Bob Debus announced he and NSW Minister for Fair Trading Virginia Judge would oversee the destruction of more than 230,000 pirated DVDs.
“In the past 12 months State and Federal Police have seized more than a million illegal DVDs. While many people view this as a less serious crime, police intelligence shows that criminals use movie piracy to fund a range of criminal activity like drug trafficking and money laundering.”
