Piracy: It's Our Concern

According to Wikipedia piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. Here, we would like to discuss about a most common criminal violence at our music industry. Music piracy in Bangladesh causes losses of US$180 Million. Only 5 to 10 percent of the total music market consists of legitimate sales. What is happening at our music industry? Why are we saying it a crime?

          First of all, piracy is a term which is used when someone enjoys one’s creativity or work without permission or for free. In our music industry, piracy is a curse. Because of this, our singers and the people relating to this profession are suffering a lot. Many of them have left the profession already. Some of them are thinking to leave.

          However, according to information, most of the retail stores in Bangladesh, selling audio or video products are having computers inside their outlets, through which they are making fake copies of the music, drama and movie albums. Though RAB is continuing offensives on pirates, it is yet to take drastic steps in seizing computers from the outlets of retailers of audio and video products.

          Being hugely affected by the massive piracy of various musical and non-musical albums, as well as un-even behavior of the mobile phone operators, most of the leading music companies in Bangladesh have stopped releasing any albums for months, while a large number of Bangladeshi singers are failing to release their new albums. Terming the situation as "volatile" members of Bangladeshi film and music industry said, the government needs to put special emphasis on this issue and instruct police and Rapid Action Battalion to continue raids on various music retailers in the country and seize pirated copies of local and foreign albums and movies. Moreover, strict laws should be made in order to stop the video and audio pirates from getting bails, once they are arrested by the members of the law enforcing agencies.

Written by Asif Sazed 

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