hi all,

its good to be back.....

here's the thing.....my recent assignment took me to China, East Coast, where we were supposed to take over a ship from the "Greeks" (believe me, you dont want to take over anything run by the greeks. nothing against them. its just that they are just as good as Chinese in sailing. and.....Chinese are bad sailors)

thats besides the point. what happened was that when these people left they took all the movies with them and as we were goin towards Australia, we needed some movies to pass the precious free time we get everyday. i was given $100 and asked to go to the market and get some movies. and i am like... i cant get much for that money, two-three movies....tops. it was all we could spare, so off i went.

found a movie store, got inside and started asking for the movies and here's the jist of what i got

1) 18 dvds with minimum of 3 movies in each dvd

2) 6 dvd sets of "top 20 horror movies", "top 20 action movies", top 15 disaster movies", "steven spilburg collection", "jim carry collection", "top 15 war movies"

3) "james bond 007" entire collection

4) "star wars" entire collection, (parts 1-6)

5) windows xp (no activation required)dvd, works and updates, have tried it

6) windows vista (same as above)dvd, works and updates, have tried it

7) the "blade" collection, Collection of "Jaws" movie

8) season 1 and 2 of "prison break", Season 1, 2 and half of of 3rd season of "supernatural", season 1 of "Heroes"

and i still had $19 to spare. i couldnt believe it and what all movies he didnt have, he told me to write them down and he would arrange for them in a couple of hours. and mind you...its a normal movie store. i didnt needed to take the shopkeeper into a dark corner and explain that i want some pirated movies.


so the question:

"IS THE PIRACY SO HIGH THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO BUY THE PIRATED STUFF"
or
"THE PEOPLE ONLY BUY THE PIRATED STUFF BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH PIRACY AROUND"

both of them hold true from their point of view.
so what do you think.....was it worth the trip or not?


cheers