According to the blog posted at July 25, 2007 (Click here to view the post), government implemented two approach " Enforcement (Ops Tulen) and Education (SikapTulen)", in order to reduce the piracy rate to the world average of 35%.The approaches are working, proven by the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus Report 2008, Malaysia become numbet 8th compare to 2007 report where Malaysia was number 4th of the top 10 lists of software piracy level. However, we still remain in top 10 lists. So the issue here is, are the two approaches really working effectively?
News on July 25, 2007 said that several IT mall have been raided for past few months, but now consumer will have the opportunity to purchase piracy software in most well-known IT mall - Lowyat Plaza, and other shopping malls too. This proves to us that the enforcement was being enforced during the few months of the year 2007 only.
Besides, the enforcement is not strict enough, only the sellers will get caught excluding the buyers. So, wherever there is a demand, people will try to sell.For education, according to streamyx broadband report, 80% of the bandwidth is being utilised by 20% of users, most probably are teenagers and adults. They are the one who are going to become professional in near future. So teaching the professional doesn't seem to be working.
Other factors such as high cost software which are main software of a computer for basic use will approximate RM1000+/- (microsoft Window XP and Microsoft Office), although hardware price are dropping dramatically, but majority of Malaysian will not afford to buy a computer with full original software. (Check on Malaysian average income per year/month)
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