I do not know about other cities in India, but in Bangalore, pirated VCD shops on the platforms are very common. You can easily spot pirated VCD sellers near restaurants, shopping malls and retail stores. The so called educated people throng around the pirated VCD sellers and 'directly support' this illegal activity. The police is least bothered about it for obvious reasons!.
This raises a few questions:
1) Why are even educated people support an illegal activity? Are we not gradually moving towards building an 'irresponsible' society? If this trend continues, then may be in future we will become so numb & dumb that we would openly support any popular illegal activity just like how we are supporting the pirated VCDs today?
2) Why is the police keeping quiet? How do we bell the cat?
3) Why is the media keeping quiet without exposing it? How can we take this to the media?
I would blame the consumers of pirated VCDs for flourishing this illegal business. Let us stop supporting pirated VCDs.
I always make it a point to spread awareness of these among my friends, colleagues and relatives & I'm happy to see some positive change in them!!.. Let each one of us spread this strong message to our friends and relatives and put an end to any form of illegal activity.
If every individual realises his/her social responsibility, I am sure we can put a full stop to ANY kind of illegal activity.
Jai Hind !
4 comments:
Good thought, but the popularity or increase in these VCDs/DVDs is because in Bangalore you see more of other state people and very few theaters run their regional film. The few theaters which where running these are also closed of late, due to the unreal increase in real estate price.
Hence a solution is either to increase in the number of theaters or people don't see the movies if its not run legally.
Thanks SL, for your comments.
I agree with your solution approach. While what you pointed out is the root cause of the issue and must be solved first, illegal activities cannot be justified with ANY kind of reasons and we should never attempt to justify reasons behind an illegal activity!
Hi jay,
I dont agree totally with the point
"illegal activities cannot be justified with ANY kind of reasons and we should never attempt to justify reasons behind an illegal activity".
What Mr.SL has expressed is correct as the cost of ticket in cinema halls are climbing like any thing and people need entertainment, so they are going for the cheaper solution but on the same time they are doing illegal activities . And as inflation is playing a key role for the increment of this "illegal activities".
.So in my opinion a middle path should be taken like having some inexpensive halls and they should screen movies of different languages.
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