(CD) Pirates Take to the Ocean

rammstein_rulz writes "www.cdfreaks.com reports that asian CD pirates now produce thousands of pirated VCD's on anchored ships in international waters to avoid getting caught. Malaysian marine police have been asked to be on the lookout for pirate ships"

Comments

Re:Why use a boat..

[lpontiac]

"Suck Emma, suck. 'Blow' is just a figure of speech!"

Hrm, who's Emma? :)

Re:Piracy on the high seas?

[BorgDrone]

I'm afraid you quite missed out on many of the things that make us a great nation.

To what things are you referring ? The lack of freedom in the US ? The fact that the US is run by corporations instead of by representatives of the people ?
I actually can't think of anything that makes the US 'better' than europe. I as a european can't think of a single thing in which I envy US-ians.

Not poverty.

[TheLink]

We're just following the well trodden path to success, see:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2002379.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,66 5 861,00.html

(Delete the space inserted by Slashdot).

Malaysia isn't that poor (Indonesia maybe). People aren't starving in the streets. You can always get food, many people will give you free food or for a nominal task, and food is cheap. A 400gm loaf of bread is about USD0.45. For twice that you can have a vegetarian _all_you_can_eat_ meal. If you are starving it's probably because for some reason you can't ask, beg, find food for yourself. Just collect shopping trolleys for a supermarket for a few bucks or something.

The climate isn't that harsh either, no winter to kill you off.

So I'd rather be down and out in Kuala Lumpur than in New York city, or Singapore.

In Kuala Lumpur you can probably built a little shack for shelter, open a stall, sell stuff/food etc and get away with it. If your food is good the enforcement officers will probably buy from your stall too ;).

In Singapore, the Gov is so efficient your shack will probably be demolished by evening, and you'd have problems selling stuff without a license.

New York city - good luck avoiding your last winter dude.

Re:I wanna say it first...

[jmardres]

Quick, put one finger in each side of your mouth and say "I was burnt on a pirate ship" :) Make sure that there are no impressionable minds around when you do this... :)