[ossig] dvorak in singapore, dvorak in KL

["Loke KS" <lks@webpres.com.my>]

QUOTE: I've thought about this and am totally convinced that the piracy is
tolerated because it keeps users on the Microsoft teat even though the
illegal copies generate no income for legitimate publishers. The approach is
like fighting a forest fire with a backfire. In this case, the forest fire
is Linux ..

> dvorak in KL  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1275902,00.asp
The locals tell of the massive pirate ships sitting beyond the 12-mile
limit, loaded to the bulkheads with millions of dollars of high-end disc
stamping equipment. This is the source of the fabled DVD-9 brand of
supposedly bootlegged DVD movie. You can get pristine first-run movies not
yet released in the US. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Kuala Lumpur.

Trying to comprehend what's going on when you step into a commercial mall
and confront what one assumes are pirated movies and software out in the
open selling for amazing prices is hard. That's what you find in Malaysia,
considered by many to be the nexus, or vortex, of all international piracy.
And we're not talking about kids selling bootlegged copies made at
home-although, as you'll see, there must be a lot of that going on too.
...

(see photos of Imbi and Low Yat Plaza also ..)


> dvorak in Singapore http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1268648,00.asp

I was in Southeast Asia a week ago to help with the rollout of PC Magazine
Singapore and PC Magazine Malaysia, two licensees for our content. The trip
gave me the opportunity to meet the charming people and some outstanding
journalists from the region, and also allowed me to skulk around the
computer scene there. What I didn't expect were some quite stunning twists I
saw on computer and peripheral retailing. As you'll see over the next few
weeks in these photo essays, there is hot computer action in the region.
Singapore has two unique malls that are dedicated to technology. These are
unlike anything I've ever seen in the US or even Europe. Malaysia has
similar malls, but Singapore's appear to be the most developed.

....
In the photo essay section:
(What astonished me were these IT centers. These are massive multistory
malls selling computer gear and software. The newest and slickest is the
Funan Center. When I expressed astonishment about these malls, the locals
were shocked that the US isn't filled with places like this. All I could
think of was the relatively lame (by comparison) Techmart in Dallas) ...




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