Good article on piracy in the Malaysia Star.

Good article on piracy in the Malaysia Star.

An excerpt:

Piracy is pulling the plug on a potentially lucrative local software industry.

Aspiring software companies fight a losing battle when their software creations get ripped off and sold for RM10.

I say this from personal experience--a friend of mine invested five years into creating a software package, only to have it pirated and sold off cheaply.

The irony is that his software was pirated precisely because it was so good; pirates don't usually pirate lousy software.

Disheartened, this friend is no longer in the software business.

So much for how software writers in developing countries don't need IP protection. They need an IP protection regime first, and then enforcement.