Seong-Bin had trouble posting on his blog, so here is his response. Feel free to respond here.
In Korean as well as Chinese society, most people don't learn counterfeiting products is bad and illegal. Also, they are brazen enough to plagiarize other's ideas; therefore, many people do manufacture and sale copycat products without guilty.
However, it is definitely infringement to copy without permission, and it equates to stealing away other people's ideas. Besides, the more copycatter arise, the more new technolgy disappear. If imagine the shoe on the owners who were stolen their ideas, we could know how much they were depressed and stressed. For this reason, the rate of developing industries is getting slower, and finally society will be faced with economic recession.
Therefore, Korea and China goverment urgently need to enact laws so as to protect intellectual properties.
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I said that pirated goods are bad as stated above, but ridiculously I have also downloaded a number of TV programs and movies. Frankly speaking, I never felt guilty when I watched pirated movies before entering university; because most of my friends also did download movies. Moreover, I didn't know it was illegal. However, I have become guilty when I downloaded movies since I learned about protecting intellectual property at university. After knowing, I knew it is terrible. Though once a thief, always thief. I was addicted. I can not quit downloading on the computer easily. However, I am trying to stop watching counterfeiting movies. That is because, I will be an engineer in the future, and I don't want to feel bad when people steal away my ideas or my technology.
In my conclusion, I am a copycatter at the moment, but I will stop doing it some day. If you who still use copycat goods, I recommend to you also stop using it.
I really like how you considered the long-term implications of piracy. When we click to download a movie, for example, we probably don't often think that we're on the road to an economic recession, but I think you're right! Great thoughts!
ReplyDeleteYou can say that again. But do you really think we can stop pirating? I don't think so.. even though I am against loads of imtations. Such a confusing topic it is!
ReplyDeleteWell, I agree with you Seong-bin.
ReplyDeleteHowever I will try not to be copycat. I think the most ideal legal society is literally ideal.
The sentence isn't mean that we don't need to try to get the goal. Let's try to get to make legal society.
Thanks Erika.
ReplyDeleteNow it's working after delete history.
@Whidly You are right. It is really hard to stop pirating right now, so we should try to quit this. If not, it should be vicious circle. yeah, it will take long times though.
@Aki haha, let's make legal society!