Patpong Fights

[Chris-TH]

LOL, Just heard the last slogan to prevent piracy:

"The one selling is breaking the law, the one buying is also breaking the law".

I guess that the Tourist Police will be rather busy the next days/weeks/months, rounding up the tourists, sentencing them, and finally deporting them with a prohibition of visiting Thailand for the next 10 years......

[sulasno]

and the penalty has been doubled to 1.6 million

[Chris-TH]

Yeah, and add this one:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... ex-boycott

For sure you can sue the Yellow/Red shirt women on the same grounds. Especially the Yellows... They managed to stay away from home some 160 days. That is what the press and the organizers tell us...

(I really miss the Joke of the Day topic. LOL)

(Not making any compatison with Thailand, but you know.... Law is Law).

[stilljustbrowsing]

Any fake or pirated goods should be confiscated and sent to a central unit for incineration
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I think that would accelerate the global warming problem immensly! (and there may be quite a few naked people about)

[Voice]

This problem of counterfeit goods has been with us for many decade and it isn’t just us alone it’s happen around the world everywhere. People will continue to buy counterfeit goods as long as it stays cheap. Patpong is famous for sex, gay, and counterfeit, which has attracting tourist for many years. Even though the counterfeit is illegal but it has been a bloodline for those who make a living selling those items. It has created social & economical for Thailand for many decade. As the whole world in crisis many business has been closed down and people will need jobs to stay survive. Now Ahbisit decided to get rid their way of life and living. I know this is almost like double edge situation one is good reason for getting rid of illegal selling of counterfeit good but on the downside it will take people livelihood away from them at the time that they need to make a living. Does he think before he made this decision or there is another pressure from the outside? But there always has been pressure from outside for many years already. Why does he choose to act now? If this decision came from within I think it a bad timing for him to act and very stupid of him for making this plan now. He has implement any plans good enough to stimulate our economy and now he even make it more difficult for people to make a living. Does he consider any plan of getting rid of prostitution in Thailand too? I would love to see how people would react on this decision. Thailand like many another countries has it own problems if we continue to depend on tourism as a major source of income then we going to have this kind of problem. We must have another source of income for our people could have stable income apart from export, which very little compare with another countries.

[Voice]

We are not talking about theft & robbery here are we? We are just talking about people who have been making a living selling something that European call it illegal. If there isn’t a demand or consumers there will not be a supply simple as that. If the tourist doesn’t buy it then there will be no selling those items of counterfeit goods anywhere in the world that including Thailand too.

[Voice]

Edit

Yes we do love pirate too one two & three

[trev]

Pirate shmirate - recording a vcr or dvd from free to air TV is piracy according to most countries copyright laws.

We've gotta draw the line at common sense - what's damaging others or just plain greed...

[Veto]

I have a perfectly legal DVR that records any TV show, pay-per-view movie, programmable for 2 wks in advance. Comes with satellite provider, but belongs to the company. All cable tv and satellites have this in america. What about tivo? Perfectly legal.
What is the major things being confiscated? Watches, gucci, versace LV bags,software and dvd's?
This has come down many times in the past, only to reemerge. What about pharmaceuticals?
What about YOU TUBE? Where does it end or begin?

Solution: Buy counterfeit items with counterfeit money. Rumors have it there's a lot of USD counterfeit on the books at major banks, being monetized to bump the books.

[Ian]

My wife owns a 40y old Luis Vitton bag. Her mother bought it on Champs Élysées in Paris. It's still looking good and works perfectly till today. In that time you bought Luis Vitton for quality, a concept seemingly unknown/forgotten in Thailand.
Anyway, when you travel by tube with a real Luis Vitton, everybody thinks its a fake, but if you climb out of your Ferrari with a fake, everybody thinks its a real one.
Style: you can have it, you can learn it, but you can't buy it.
Be Real!
So it should be possible for Thailand to produce a durable, good looking bag or suitcase for a reasonable price, which would be happyly bought by tourists, and will become a collectors item itself, just to be faked by... europeans? I want to see what the thai vendors would think of that ? ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4670612.stm
Now selling in Europe as fashionable accessories.