It seems south american folks are not interested in the overpriced official product and have other plans to obtain the much sought after content.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13847631.htmWeeks before the blockbuster ``King Kong'' opened in U.S. theaters in December, illegal copies of the movie were already for sale on the streets of Bolivia's impoverished capital for less than $1.50 each.
Sidewalk vendors in Brazil sell pirated versions of San Jose-based Adobe Systems' photo editing software Photoshop for as little as $7 a copy, less than 1 percent of its list price, and in October, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva admitted to watching an illegal copy of a hit Brazilian film on the presidential jet. Some 99 percent of all the recordings sold in Paraguay are pirated.
The recording industry association IFPI estimates that pirated wares make up three-fifths of all the music purchased in Latin America and 95 percent or more of sales in Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. In contrast, pirated copies make up one-third of all the music purchased worldwide and one-fifth of U.S. sales.
``We've lost the market in many of these countries,'' said Emilio Garcia, the IFPI's Latin
Shame that
But lets cut to the chase here, lets examine the methods used to try to enact luddite style legislation at the behest of the US Cartel.
Law enforcement officials say the illegal trade has close ties to organized crime activities such as money laundering and drug trafficking.
``The pirates buy their discs from bigger groups who produce them, and those groups buy their (CD) burners in bulk from even larger groups, and these groups all have ties to organized crime,'' said Alexandre Gomes, an investigator with a Brazilian music industry organization. ``In many cases, they're the same people.''
You see how easy the lies roll off their brown tongues folks, lets wave the terrorism banner and we can get what we want easily, just like in the US.
I wonder why nobody in the so called professional news media brings this up for discussion ?
Actually I dont, most of the news organisations are owned by the Cartel and do exactly as they are told, lackies always do.
