Corruption-unintentional piracy

In child hood, in my house there was a Philips magnetic tape recorder, a TV and a radio, only these three electronic instruments were there for entertainment. Magnetic cassettes were used to play the song by tape recorder. I clearly remember, that time mainly three music companies (HMV, Tips and T-Series) were producing these cassettes. I used to save money to buy new movie songs cassettes from my pocket money, that time HMV cassettes price was nearly 30-35 INR and t-series 25-30 INR. To watch movies we used to hire VCR/VCP (recorder and player) or used to go to the cinema hall once in 2/3 months, otherwise evergreen TV was there to fulfil these needs. Typical ways of entertainment for a lower middle class family.

Today in era of computer and internet these things can be accessed easily. Movies, songs can be downloaded through internet and are being downloaded worldwide. I was too involved in this before few years ago and stopped totally when I learnt that this is illegal and piracy. Today we earn many more times than what we were getting in schools\college for expenditure, then why we cannot simply spend some money to buy DVDs, CDs as we were doing in childhood? We have mobile, laptops worth rates of 20K, 35K, and 50K etc but all song, movies are pirated.

I am not talking about those who are buying online or from stores and then playing in their electronic devices; this is about those who are intentionally/unintentionally involved in this crime. As we know it is very less likely to be caught and very tough to stop it through any means because of its complicacies. Those who are interested in statistics can find out easily from internet that most of the money involved in piracy is going for terrorism and other unethical activities around the world. And because of piracy, entertainment industry is going in deficit of billions of rupee per year. Not only this, piracy is also generating black money.

We used to talk about corruption, dishonest leaders, and corrupt system and so on. Have we any time realized that everyone is involved in wrong deeds at their own level. They might be leaders, bureaucrats, doctors, engineers or any other ordinary man. If we cannot bring change at our own level how we can expect change at national level. Any change starts from within and goes long way to change the world.