Optical Disc Piracy Trade in Quiapo, Philippines (Follow me on Twitter@detectivebogart)

By: Dr. Vivencio Ballano vballano@yahoo.com

NOTE:

This Sociological Study was completed in 2010 before the Quiapo Piracy Trade in the Barter Center Complex was closed down by Mayor

Alfredo Lim and the OMB.

This study is dedicated to our poor Muslim brothers who struggle to fight poverty and social discrimination in Philippine society through the

informal trade of piracy.

Some slides on theMajor Social Forces that Facilitate the Piracy trade in the Philippines

are excluded here.

A book form of this study has been prepared by the author for Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Association of American Publishers (AAP)Business Software Alliance (BSA)Entertainment Software Association (ESA)Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA)Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA)Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Piracy said to have worsened in RP04/24/2008 | 05:23 AM

Email this | Email the Editor | Print | Digg this | Add to del.icio.us MANILA, Philippines - Copyright piracy has worsened in the Philippines, leading to a 25% increase in trade losses to $212.3 million or around P9 billion last year, according to an influential business lobby based in the US.

The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), in comments submitted to the US government for its yearly report on copyright violators, said the Philippines should continuously be monitored but there should be no change in the country’s status in the US "Special 301" findings.

“Last May 2, or a week after the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its Special 301 Report, which specifically mentioned Quiapo's notoriety for selling counterfeit and pirated merchandize, abs-cbnNEWS.com visited this bustling area of Manila “(ABS-CBN Online 5/11/2008).

QUIAPO ONE OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST‘PIRATE DENS” (May 2, 2007)

Quiapo in Manila has been listed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative as one of the “notorious markets” for pirated and counterfeit merchandise. In its “Special 301” report, the agency said piracy thrives in the district despite several raids in 2006. Stalls in several shopping centers in Quiapo openly sell illegally copied optical discs, closing only for a few days after a raid but resuming business afterward. The USTR named 10 notorious markets for pirated goods, which included the Panthip Plaza in Bangkok, the Harco Glodok in Jakarta, Indonesia and the Silk Street Market in Beijing, China. The agency also said transshipped or in transit goods remain a problem in the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, Paraguay and other countries (www.manilatimes.net).

I. Organizational & Social Dimensionof Deviance: Classical to SocialCapital theories

II. Cultural & Social Alliances & Deviance:Religious affiliation, Ethnicity, & Illegal Network of Law Enforcers & Traders

III. Material & Geographical Networks that maintain High-tech Crime

IV. Technology, Society & High-TechDeviance and Actor-Network Theory

Legend: x=stall/store of pirated discs

Maranao Piracy Operators: Most Exposed Muslims to Technology

A sample of the “master”

FOREIGN SOURCE FOREIGNBROKER

FOREIGN AIRPORT LOCAL BROKER

QUIAPO

MUSLIM CONTACT MUSLIM PRODUCER-SUPPLIER

LOCAL OD PLANT

BLACK MARKET MASTER COPY COURIER QUIAPOBURNERS

PRODUCERFOREIGN CONTACT

INTERNET

DISC COPIERS

LABEL PRINTER

DISCS REPLICATING PLANTS

SOFTWARES

PARAPHERNALIA

QUIAPO PRODUCER-SUPPLIER

LOADER

MANILA AIRPORT/AIRLINE CONTACTS

DOMESTIC AIRPORT

PROVINCIAL AIRPORT CONTACTS

DISTRIBUTOR

PAYMENT

ORDER