Taking the first step in this direction, the government has started a hotline to report piracy and individuals reporting such cases will be rewarded.

full story here

I'm sure most people were not aware that a problem existed in India...........BUT, the biggest abusers of IP theft are N. Korea and China.........and U.N. is unable to help stop IP theft since it is run by thieves like "Kofi Anon" .......The United Nations can't be trusted to do the right thing...........just look at the "Oil for Food" and "Oil for Medicine" programs in Iraq........the U.N Tyrants got rich while the Iraqi people suffered.......

hey maybe we should not use these kind of words here

regards

And that sort of thing is entrely off-topic. Let's all not hijack a perfectly legitimate post so we can go off on a tangent, hmm. Oil for Food has, as far as I know, nothing whatsoever to do with software pirates - I think it's more of an oil and food issue.

Keep it on topic and relevant please.

does the benefits of india's IT industry benefits INDIA herself ??

sure it benfits a lot that is the reason that it is on boom .
IT in the pride of India and envy of others

Well, speaking as an Indian, let's not exaggerate or unnecessarily wax poetic here...


Most of the "IT" industry is just routine coding, with little actual R&D. Sure, it's fetches some dough now, but in the long run, it's hardcore R&D that counts, and most of that's still being done in the west.

Also, the job security is very poor, as employees are not specialized enough to be expendable & so get laid off routinely.

Also, one must remember that all this 'piracy hotline' stuff is mainly a smokescreen to mask the cultural damp placed on opensource software by IT businesses that are frightened of the competition.

hey my fellow countryman
its all history now!!

much of the R & D work is now in India

follow this article in the Times of India recently
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...how/610184.cms

i do not know how can u say about the experince, if that is the case then why are they in demand all over

and be it any sector in IT, this has brought a lot of Jobs to our country and now the economy has recharged due to it.


and that piracy hotline is the first step
atleast the govt. has thought of implementing it
there is no such mechanism in place in all countries

and please this topic is regarding piracy hotline
so better we should not indulge in other discussions here

regards

Uh, yeah, if it's anything like the other 'hotlines' back home, then I'll believe it only if it fetches results. We all know how wonderfully competent, efficient and incorruptible the Desi lawmakers are, right ?

yeah we all know about that .

but instead of playing the blame game and blaming it on the lawmakers , as a general public it is our duty to bring awareness.
the govt. can only support us ,its our duty to make people aware of such things called piracy and make then aware of the disadvantages of piracy. this can be done when we tell them about other non-pirated options.

regards

<shrug>

I guess, but I still maintain:

"Phalen parichayate"


That's Sanskrit, FYI

In India, piracy has led to loss of lots of Vitamin "M" to all the companies that develop software products.

A statement I read on the website of Deccan Herald (a local newspaper in Chennai)
I also found what is the condition of Piracy in india...but I dont know whether this is the current status or status of previous year

http://www.nasscom.org/artdisplay.asp?cat_id=58

Looking at all these, I believe, Piracy cannot be stopped completely. It can be reduced to an extent that is negligible (i.e. somewhere unknowlingly going on..)

What we can do is promote the popularity of GNU/Linux, emphasizing the use of it, its benefits and functionality, security and above all the cost!....

At the same time, we should ensure, through a community like LQ, that each and every user finds a way out for their problems faced in GNU/Linux (if any)...

Instead of focussing more on reducing piracy, we can focus more on the use of GNU/Linux and its availability ubiquitous.

Toll free numbers do help, but I really dont know to what extent it has helped reducing piracy

One thing I did in my second year of Bachelor's Degree:

I had installed Redhat Linux 9.0 (just had begun to know abt GNU/linux) on atleast 8 computers (of my friends) and encouraged them to use it. Many of them now, don't use it because, we have subjects in our Final Year that are dominated by Microsoft Windows.

1) Visual Basic
2) MS-SQL Server (and Oracle)

Microsoft IIS Server configuration and set up...

However, I have not stopped using Redhat Linux and wud be upgrading to fedora core 4 soon!

I don't think piracy can even be made neglible, not without a police state, and I don't think India should want to go that route. That is at least if we are referring to general piracy. If we are only talking about businesses and corporations then there are probably things that can be done to limit the problems.

Ultimately though, as long as software is copyable it will be copied. And if you try to make it uncopyable with DRM and hardware then you are killing off any of the users rights to use things like GNU/linux as well. I think that is the wrong route to go.

Far better it is I think to work with this natural state of software and promote a different reasoning regarding software. Users of all kinds need to understand software cannot be developed without developers, and developers need to make money. But businesses who develop software need to understand that the idea of licensed copies is faulty at the core. Software is not a simple product, because unlike physical products it can be reproduced very cheaply. Encouraging those businesses that benefit most from software to support it, as well as end users to donate I think is the best route to go in the long run. The best way to encourage is to produce software that people like, and to listen to their desires for features, etc.

I think software should be incorporated into other industries that it benefits. For example the movie industry should pay for development of software that allows for special effects. This software should be freely available to everyone. The developers get paid because the industry that makes the $ from it is paying them directly, and regular people who just want to try out software but don't have the huge funds to purchase 3000$ copies of max or maya can do so.

This is beneficial to everyone, except the middle man. And we don't need these middle men nearly as much now. Yes retailers and publishers still have a small purpose in distributing media to those without internet connections, but we shouldn't confuse the importance of the software itself with the medium used to transfer it. We shouldn't prevent copying simply because some businesses could possibly make more money if there was not such a thing. Those businesses should not need to be so large if their purpose could otherwise be minor. Only in the "content industries" do people get big heads and start telling the customers how they should be getting their product.

I accept with your views hari. Getting into an IT company is more easy than trying to start writing a hello world program. THere is absolutely no sense in the hiring process. However, this is to stay. Ofcourse companies do not have any other cheap alternative to get things done. Even if there are some, they dont have enough man power.

Piracy hotline is just a waste of money. It is impossible to stop software piracy in a country of 1billion people...