Commerce Ministry Steps Up Anti-piracy Campaign

[george]

Commerce Ministry steps up anti-piracy campaign

BANGKOK: -- Thailand's Ministry of Commerce has intensively stepped up its campaign against pirated products starting from June 1 to show that the country is cooperating with the international community to stop using counterfeit goods, Deputy Commerce Minister Preecha Laohapongchana said here Thursday.

Mr. Preecha, together with singers and song intellectual property rights owners, launched the anti-piracy campaign at Pantip Plaza, a leading IT products shopping complex here, to raise public awareness regarding the responsibility of consumers and businesses alike to refrain from buying, selling and using pirated products.

He said the campaign is aimed at emphasizing the importance of using genuine products.

During the past years, Mr. Preecha said, Thailand was successful in cracking down on pirated goods, but consumers play the most important part in the campaign.

The public should decide to do the right thing by purchasing only authentic products, he said.

The deputy commerce minister said that the owner of Pantip Plaza was cooperating with the authorities very well by ordering the closure of shops found to have sold illegal products.

He warned that if any businesses are found selling illegal or pirated products, they will be prosecuted.

The minister revealed that more than 280 people were arrested during the first four months of this year for intellectual property violations and more than 62,000 pirated goods were seized.

--TNA 2006-06-01

[Maejo Man]

Commerce Ministry steps up anti-piracy campaign

The deputy commerce minister said that the owner of Pantip Plaza was cooperating with the authorities very well by ordering the closure of shops found to have sold illegal products.

--TNA 2006-06-01

In which case his second and third floors will be just about empty It's just not going to happen....

[Chang_paarp]

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Commerce Ministry steps up anti-piracy campaign

BANGKOK: -- Thailand's Ministry of Commerce has intensively stepped up its campaign against pirated products starting from June 1 to show that the country is cooperating with the international community to stop using counterfeit goods, Deputy Commerce Minister Preecha Laohapongchana said here Thursday.

Mr. Preecha, together with singers and song intellectual property rights owners, launched the anti-piracy campaign at Pantip Plaza, a leading IT products shopping complex here, to raise public awareness regarding the responsibility of consumers and businesses alike to refrain from buying, selling and using pirated products.

He said the campaign is aimed at emphasizing the importance of using genuine products.

Make up your mind.

Pay them enough to buy genuine or go find another crackdown.

Edited June 1, 2006 by Chang_paarp

[ColPyat]

Commerce Ministry steps up anti-piracy campaign

BANGKOK: -- Thailand's Ministry of Commerce has intensively stepped up its campaign against pirated products starting from June 1 to show that the country is cooperating with the international community to stop using counterfeit goods, Deputy Commerce Minister Preecha Laohapongchana said here Thursday.

Just part of the 60 year celebrations. Foreign media and visiting dignitaries will be shown how serious Thailand is in cracking down on fake goods. It'll all be over soon.

The vendors of pirated DVD's will just have a few weeks holiday.

[britmaveric]

Yes come July back to business as normal!

[Phil Conners]

Yak yak yak, the usual story

[dvk1951]

more crackdown rhetoric with vociferous bark but void of bite

[Ricardo]

Suspect that this crack-down may itself turn out to be a counterfeit.

[The Skipper]

The minister revealed that more than 280 people were arrested during the first four months of this year for intellectual property violations and more than 62,000 pirated goods were seized.

--TNA 2006-06-01

...and that was just between Sukhumvit Soi 3 and Soi 5.

Cheating is a national pastime and the ones most successfull at it gain admiration from others.

Sometimes getting elected to high office.(ie:Chewit, Taksin...)

Edited June 2, 2006 by The Skipper

[melonf]

Well if they are relying on consumers to buy guenuine then perhaps thay ought to stop the outrageous Thai censorshop.

The copy DVDs are a superior product., no censorship, no region coding <deleted> and always an English soundtrack with Thai subtitles for my wife.

[penzman]

Luckily, our local cable tv operator has a huuuge collection of pirated movies and will likely not care about this. It just has to be the best movie chanel I have ever seen. 300 baht a month.

Starmovie you say?

[PREM-R]

Its a re-run of APEC in 2003 Remove the homeless from the steets, round up the stray dogs, move the food and garland venders on and CLAMP DOWN ON CONTERFEIT GOODS. When all the visiting Royals have gone home normal service will be resumed.

[Phil Conners]

Luckily, our local cable tv operator has a huuuge collection of pirated movies and will likely not care about this. It just has to be the best movie chanel I have ever seen. 300 baht a month.

Starmovie you say?

Same goes for Sophon Cable in Pattaya - whose owner incidentially is one of the bigwigs in the local TRT party