tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646088126264276696.post7385472013155004367..comments2023-06-29T05:40:16.091-07:00Comments on Travis' Travels: Institutionalized piracyTravishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06085477548114255179noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646088126264276696.post-69924069675217271242008-01-30T06:35:00.000-08:002008-01-30T06:35:00.000-08:00Here's the biggest joke:"The chief of the Intellec...Here's the biggest joke:<BR/>"The chief of the Intellectual Property Department said on Saturday she feels Thailand has "sufficiently suppressed" street piracy and hopes Washington will upgrade Thailand off the intellectual property priority watch list this year.<BR/><BR/>Puangrat Aswapisit, director-general, said her department is preparing information to submit to Washington on Thailand's suppression of piracy during 2007."<BR/><BR/>No one I know in Thailand buys legitimate programs...that goes from businesses to individuals.<BR/>The reason: "Too expensive"<BR/><BR/>Everyone I know buys pirated software. That's the way it has always been in Thailand.<BR/><BR/>Whole shopping malls are devoted to the the trade.<BR/><BR/>You walk in, pick out the pirated software you want from their list of covers, pay your money and they tell you to come back in 15 minutes. They send someone out to get the actual disk. You return and they give you the disk.<BR/>They never keep the disks where they can get confiscated.Hamsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10045933530624125001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646088126264276696.post-57722181329501922412008-01-15T08:03:00.000-08:002008-01-15T08:03:00.000-08:00Very true...the notebok I'm typing on now came fro...Very true...the notebok I'm typing on now came from Pattaya not long ago and was about half the price of the US version of a no-OS box. But they took a few hours and cloned the HDD from another image they had handy complete with every major program known on the market including AV's. Theres a ton of programs in here that I still dont understand and seem geared towards hacking.<BR/><BR/>And get this....it all passes the microsoft genuine whatever test even though its a mesh of Vista and XP SP3.<BR/><BR/>$1,300 CS3 program? no probs..only 200 baht.<BR/><BR/>They had this 5-story electronics mall up the road from walking street that had to be the largest open-air black market I have ever seen.Homeless Diverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595090740777389690noreply@blogger.com