Media are combinations of technologies and content resulting in a wide range of new information products, applications and services. The potential of media is not limited by technology but only by the imagination and skills of those who develop and use them ("Media and messages in the information age," 1987, p.1). The media and information industries remains positive, which is consistent with a year ago, and do not predict change at this time. Therefore, they became a messenger to govern communities together with a powerful effect convince the follower.
The media and information industries are unique capacity to convert the world into global communities. The rules and regulation of copyright piracy has become a major issue to control the strategies of entertainment, multimedia, and software companies (Nick Smith, 2000, pg. 24). For example, in 7 June, 2007, Kuching branch of the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA) successfully raided the premises of a Kuching based business services solutions provider on suspicion of using infringing computer software belonging to members of BSA which is Adobe and Autodesk.
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United StatesIt founds more than 83 copies of suspected infringing business software installed in the computers (BSA, 2006). Its not only hurts the economic position of these firms, but also affects the speed of innovations, trade, foreign direct investment, technology diffusion and economic growth.
Furthermore, fines and summons is one of the way to destroy the illegal activities with a strong message towards the communities. For example, Royal Malaysian Police raided an unlicensed replicating facility in Klang, Selangor, arresting four men, aged 22 to 36, and seized 4,000 pirated VCDs. The court fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both (Mike Ellis, 2007). This issue result a strong commitment...