Law on direct downloading in the Philippines sought

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MANILA, Philippines – To further lower the rate of media piracy in the country, the Optical Media Board (OMB) has called on legislators to create a law concerning direct downloading in the Internet.

Lawyer Cyrus Valenzuela, executive director of OMB, told Philstar.com that the Philippines must have a law addressing piracy problems related to direct downloading of copyrighted materials.

"We have to criminalize it first before we can have all the necessary technologies needed to address the problem," Valenzuela said.

He stressed that having a law on direct downloading of copyrighted materials is essential since the Philippines had been a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for about a decade already; but the country doesn’t have any substantial law addressing the problem.

WIPO is a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to develop a balanced and accessible international intellectual property (IP) system, which rewards creativity, stimulates innovation and contributes to economic development while safeguarding the public interest.

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[jd_cellphone]

lisura ani nga Law oi, dili mani ka stop sa piracy.......what about P2P file sharing?...sus daghana raba torrents...

[flanker]

They cant stop it.. impossible kaayo.. sharing is different from pirating.

[Iamalbertrebs]

This is another waste of time amending this law.. find another law to amend (useful and effective ones)

[ReikoChan]

Not gonna happen. The piracy business is over 9000. Not even Vegeta can stop it.

[user199]

I buy software over the internet. after my card is billed, I download directly. why criminalize direct downloading?

P2P is different.

[sizzlingROBOT]

I think this is a good move from the government against piracy and the likes. Download junkies might seen better days if this one becomes a law.

[ingkiang]

igo ra buhat ug law, ang implementation wla...wla ra gehapon kwenta..

[godwhacker]

Ipauna sa nila nang mga namaligya diha ug pirated DVDs. Di man sila seryoso. Maayo lang sila mogama ug balaod pero di sila implement.

[kidynamite]

well they can do it, if they can destroy all the computers in the philippines.
In fact as I am reading this right now I am downloading movies from the internet.. Its on my computer now. And later I will be watching it while eating my salad. "Hmmmm, nothing gets better watching stolen movies from the internet."