Re: SM Soundtracks?


to megami@usagi.jrd.dec.com
from Sam <sbh24@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
subject Re: SM Soundtracks?
date Fri, 03 Apr 1998 13:02:14 +1300
>> I've got my own attitude to pirating. I grew up in Saudi Arabia,
>> where there were no originals, only Pirated copies of everything:
>
> ...I grew up in Bahrain, right next to Saudi Arabia... I didn't have
>any problems finding the original... -_-; (life must suck in Saudi...)

The standard of living was very high, but no copyright laws and the
strictest customs officials in the world made getting original things kinda
hard.

Videos is a good example. If one brought in a video from outside, customs
would have a look through it and, if they found anything they considered
offensive (ie any female flesh whatsoever, even thighs etc) it was
destroyed. Same goes for books, clothes, hell even toys.

We managed to bring movies into the country by bringing in Laser Discs
inside record LP sleeves. The customs officials would wave them through,
thinking them music records. Dumb asses.

All videos one bought in Saudi were all copies of copies of something
filmed with a video camera in a cinema outside (no cinemas in Saudi, who
knows what men and women might do together in the dark like that!) and then
cut to religious discretion and mass copied and sold. Jeesh.

>> videos, music, hell sometimes magazines. Every video was a copy of
>> a copy of a copy and were almost unwatchable. All the music was done
>> by companies like 747, and hence the quality was apalling.
>
> ...videos, music, magazines, newspapers, heck, even FOOD I was able to
>get the ORIGINAL Japanese.... (even Japan airlines flew into Bahrain
>once a week ^_^;)

Bahrain didn't have the power to tell any country they wanted to to get
f****d and then have that country crawl back in apology. ;-D

Despite that I had a great childhood and look back on Saudi with much
fondess. Weird really. ^_^

Sam



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