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Bill: Anti-Piracy Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Proletariat Revolution Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2055
Description[?]:
| While piracy of software and other media is a dominant part of our culture, it has been shown that it is a waste of tax payer money to go after all of them. This bill will not legalise such acts, but rather, it proposes a new way to combat the growing usage. This bill recommends that all companies governing media lower their prices as an acknowledgement that overcharging is the cause of the media piracy. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:21:06, May 10, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | Citizens pirate these goods because of the cost. If the cost were lowered, the citizens wou;dn't have to go into the black market to acquire them. |
| Date | 20:28:35, May 10, 2005 CET | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | Yes, but if costs were reduced then companies would be less likely to produce these things in the first place. |
| Date | 11:49:22, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | well, their profits may not go down that much as they would be not losing so much money through piracy. |
| Date | 14:33:05, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | Think about it. Wal-Mart keeps lower prices on everything and on average, due to their size and popularity, they make millions of dollars everyday (I forget the exact figure). (Ignore that this second example is RL). In China, to reduce piracy, the government implemented a policy to keep the prices of these goods lower. So, it has successfull kept piracy down. |
| Date | 18:09:19, May 11, 2005 CET | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | (Alright, then on china...) I recently read in a business column that a large portion of China's GDP is in production and resale of cheap knock-off's. They pirate everything from software to cars, much of it done very skillfully and all of it done far cheaper than companies manage. Government attempts to stop it have mostly failed, because the people themselves don't see it as a problem. Government cannot fight culture effectively, and in anything but a police state popular opinion leads above all. Companies are lowering prices to help prevent piracy, which has been partially effective - or effective enough, at least, to make business there profitable. |
| Date | 16:30:14, May 13, 2005 CET | From | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | Wal Mart is not popular, just omnipresent. It is not the same thing. We oppose direct price controls and would prefer market regulation. |
| Date | 19:22:15, May 13, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | This wouldn't be price control. This is an extension of market control. |
| Date | 22:39:53, May 13, 2005 CET | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | "we shall mandate that games, videos, music and other media should be sold at a lower more reasonable price" That is a direct price control, not a regulation. |
| Date | 21:18:00, May 15, 2005 CET | From | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | The first part is a market regulation and we would support that on its own. |
| Date | 23:17:31, May 16, 2005 CET | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Anti-Piracy Act |
| Message | This revision is much more promising, and we will support it as it now reads. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 112 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 16 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 49 |
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