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PM orders authorities to get tough on online pirates

 

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BANGKOK: -- The prime minister has ordered intellectual property agencies and communications organizations to crack down on fake products being sold online.

 

It has been increasingly noted that the market for fakes has moved away from the traditional areas in markets, stores and roadside stall to online locations like websites, Facebook and Instagram.

 

And PM Prayut - under pressure from the international community to do something about the trade - is calling for more to be done, reports Daily News.

 

Through his government he is asking the Digital Economy department or DE and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to step up their efforts to wipeout the business.

 

Tossaporn Thangsubut said it was increasing noticeable that the market for fake products infringing copyrights and intellectual copyright infractions were moving away from the streets to online locations.

 

Meanwhile the government is not forgetting the traditional markets, department stores and stalls where pirated goods are often sold. 

 

They are calling on the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA) to step up checks at rented premises as well as asking railway authorities to check what is being sold on their property.

 

People renting retail space are being asked to report if illegal items are sold in their areas and revoke agreements where necessary.

 

Source: Daily News

 
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It would be interesting to know what percentage of Thailand's GDP was made up of the production and marketing of fake goods. 

For better or worse I expect a lot of people know no other way of survival than being involved in this industry. It is not as if it has just sprung up overnight. Most of Asia is into it.

All very well for the upper crust to be virtuous regarding counterfeit crime seeing as many of them are already engaged in criminal activities in other spheres.

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24 minutes ago, zorro1 said:

Dude they wiped out 200 stalls in one night!!!

Lol that's 200 more than the last 100 years of government.

If I was a pirate I would be looking at making a career adjustment like the other 200

 

Two words: smoke 'and' mirrors. 

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19 minutes ago, pogal said:

Does that mean all government departments will actually go out and buy genuine licences for Windows software on ALL their computers!? 55555555555 Yeah right! 

Why would they ? It's only windows !

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4 hours ago, Brer Fox said:

It would be interesting to know what percentage of Thailand's GDP was made up of the production and marketing of fake goods. 

For better or worse I expect a lot of people know no other way of survival than being involved in this industry. It is not as if it has just sprung up overnight. Most of Asia is into it.

All very well for the upper crust to be virtuous regarding counterfeit crime seeing as many of them are already engaged in criminal activities in other spheres.

 

 

 Brainy peopole use Google and simply download their genuine stuff like I do. And I pay taxes every year...:stoner:

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5 hours ago, MorristheRunt said:

Their are a lot of fake Governments and Prime Ministers in Thailand, maybe he could arrange a crackdown on those to,

 

Most of the internet programs on government computers are pirated copies. Clean your own house first don't come and try to make us the flavor of the day. Half the copies of purses etc. are better quality than the real thing. Do you really want to copyright protect these stupid movies coming of where ever today what a pile of crap.  There are just no more Gone With The Wind made anymore. They should pay me to give some of this crap 15 minutes of my time before I mercifully hit the delete button. Whats wrong Mr. P. are you running short of real crimes to investigate or just catering/kow towing  to the international community. 

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Why is it that taxpayers, ultimately, have to cough up the costs for protecting the profits of producers that market overvalued products?

If those overvalued products are so easy to reproduce, so very much based on a name, well, then they deserve to be copied.

Instead of making their products so unique, so high quality, so much better made of such expensive materials, they continue to sell products that are only valued by a name.

And probably manufactured in the same sweatshop where all the mass produced goods originate, the only difference a sticker or something like that.

Let them pay the police, not the taxpayers.

 

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On 17/11/2016 at 5:35 PM, hansnl said:

Why is it that taxpayers, ultimately, have to cough up the costs for protecting the profits of producers that market overvalued products?

If those overvalued products are so easy to reproduce, so very much based on a name, well, then they deserve to be copied.

Instead of making their products so unique, so high quality, so much better made of such expensive materials, they continue to sell products that are only valued by a name.

And probably manufactured in the same sweatshop where all the mass produced goods originate, the only difference a sticker or something like that.

Let them pay the police, not the taxpayers.

 

I saw a Trump shirt at the local market, one of the executive ones. Probably cost 100 bucks back in NYC.  I figured - I'm a supporter of all things bright and beautiful..so I declined to buy. It did ,have drool marks on it, which might have explained the 50 baht price tag.

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On 11/17/2016 at 1:45 PM, zorro1 said:

Dude they wiped out 200 stalls in one night!!!

Lol that's 200 more than the last 100 years of government.

If I was a pirate I would be looking at making a career adjustment like the other 200

That small timers and half those stall not selling pirate related goods.

Mbk is good example along with pantip fashion mall and plaza, fortune town which has massive pirate video, music and software, Microsoft genuine advantage booth actually closed before any pirate shops in Fortune as they so deeply rooted .... It's all a lot of talk and no action where real money and big players involved

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