Few normal people would be willing to add a couple hundred dollars in a gun collection of international organized crime.
But that is exactly what can be done if one is on the black market or buying pirated goods such as handbags, watches or clothes.
Many forget or deny that the black economy, often supplying the serious and organized crime.
By buying pirated or things on the black market they support the dark forces that they would otherwise shun like the plague.
There will be temptations to buy a cheap bootleg. We want to be part of the original prestige and thereby obtain increased welfare. But it is not only illegal; it also supports a large industry that at best “only” is criminal – in the worst case, the financing of terrorism and other subversive activities.
Another aspect of piracy is to know how they are produced. Probably they are produced in factories where staff care for the least said is flawed.
Therefore, the risk is that it supports child labor and people who are forced to work in slave-like conditions. To the seemingly low price, a premium of human suffering and such a price, we do not pay.
Most people are law abiding and would not support the serious crime. It is usually easy to distinguish between rights and wrong, what are mine and yours. People are basically law-abiding and want to do right for themselves.
It is good because the rule of law ultimately rests on the individual’s will to live and conduct them lawfully.
Sometimes, however, some jerk on the shoulders and thinking that “it is not so bad if I …”, but it is a dangerous way to go. That any person taking a shortcut and hire illegal workers, buying goods without a receipt, purchase pirated goods.
Therefore, it is not about to “save a few thousand” by taking a moral shortcut – it undermines the whole society through direct or indirect support of subversive crime.
Eventually, it leads to the strengthening of organized crime a foothold. It is hardly a development that no ordinary person seeks. The pirated market also makes “faked medicines” that can be lethal even if generic medications in some cases should be allowed the pirates make 100 % fake medicines.
By failing to buy pirated copies at home or abroad, we are reducing the risk of supporting child labor, slavery and serious international crime. But in Thailand the black market is so integrated in the normal economy that the questions is if the economy will gain or loose to get rid all pirated clothing’s and movies.
You can almost say by downloading the movies from torrents you are fighting the mafia by not buying any more from them.
Part of this article was written in Swedish by Inge Garstedt a member of the “M” party in Sweden.
