Intellectual Property Rights in the Middle East
Intellectual property rights in the middle east is not only ignored, but it has reached a point way beyond just being ignored. Now people are not only pirating the content, they are treating the content that they illegally copied as if it was their content.
For example you see that Arabic music websites are not only making copyrighted content freely available on their websites, creating a large amount of traffic for them to sell ads their websites, without fearing of any legal actions from the original content owner .. They are now adding credits for their websites on the pirated songs files and embedding their websites on the sound track itself ..
I wonder when will this thing stop, it’s really sad that of all the Arabic websites out there, there is a very small percentage that contain their own original content, most websites are just filled with pirated content ..
MrMMM on July 18th 2007 in Technology
Chroma-Trauma responded on 21 Jul 2007 at 3:25 am #
That’s our main problem, here, in the Arab world. Do you know, what is the funny thing? Those who operate these music websites claim that that they are legitimate. Sheik ‘De3aij El-Khalifa El-Sabah’ is one of those who insist that his website is not against the law, and his service (Offering downloadable songs free of charge) is not wrong because he made a deal with all the Arabic production companies to allow him offering their products free of charge!!!. How brainless is that? Are they stupid enough to lose money because of a a deal like that?? They can’t say anything because of his connections and because of his family name. De3aij who is a business man himself wouldn’t allow something like that to be done to him, otherwise he will persecute immediately. Why didn’t Prince Waleed Bin 6alal do something to protect his assets and his business?