Piracy Blues
The kid gloves are well and truly off in the war on intellectual property rights theft in Saudi Arabia, which in recent months has reportedly seen a significant spike in the piracy of software and movies. This time out, industry groupings fighting the menace are intent on taking prisoners… literally.
They are now calling on the authorities to impose the maximum penalties on offenders, including, for the first time, to press ahead with jail terms.
All eyes are now riveted on a courtroom in the kingdom where legal proceedings are going on against two persons caught selling pirated movies. One of them has been raided as many as seven times and nearly 75,000 DVDs confiscated in the process.
Lawyers Dr Michael Krämer
This special report features Dr. Michael Krämer discussing the various aspects of intellectual property theft and appeared in the 19 September 2010 edition of Gulf News and is reproduced with the kind permission of the editors.
