[In Bahasa Indonesia] Some insights about music piracy in Indonesia
When somebody said that the Internet is powerful, I should admit it wholeheartedly. Never before, a question that being answered directly and in a matter of minutes or even seconds while the respondents are faraway in geographic term.
Therefore I would like to thank to my friends at Twitter and Plurk to help me out by giving their insights in an issue that I asked to them.
Say, for example, you're looking for this particular MP3. Which one you will choose; go to online music store and buy it with a price of a song is 5000 IDR (US$ 0.5) or spend some days and nights to search for the free MP3?
This is the result at Twitter, and this is the result at Plurk.
Quick analysis:
Despite the fact that here in the Internet we have this understanding about Free Stuffs - "anything that available at the Internet should be free/freeware/shareware" - and most people are willing to search their most-needed/most-wanted stuffs over the Internet for days and nights, some of them choose to buy it directly over the Internet. Interesting fact though, the question about 'moral', 'law' or 'legality' is not on the top priority. One of the reasons why some people choose to buy it legally over the Net is because the clear information about the MP3 (clear tag, nice quality with good standard).
While for those who choose to download it directly, they prefer it because of accessibility. There's this opinion of "if I could find it free over the Net, why should I pay for it?" The downloading/copying system is relying heavily on networking, links and ability to search.
On the time being, I'm thinking of blogging it and ask for inputs from my fellow blogger friends :)
Thank you to my friends at Twitter and Plurk for their most-needed insightful inputs :)
