11. Piracy

The philippine music industry is now slowly going down the mainstream. There are many reasons that affects the status of OPM to our very own country. One of the reasons is Piracy. The researcher has been searching about OPM for few months and she found out that piracy here in the Philippines can really affect the music industry specially to the OPM.

An article in ezinearticle.com entitled Helping the Pinoy Music Industries in Your Own Little Ways by Edu Eusebio stated that "Go for the original. Piracy is an alarming illegal practice in the Philippines. As consumers, the best thing that we could do is to give our sincerest support through buying original CDs and music video recordings of local artists. Nowadays, the web has put more pressure on the music industry since people can easily access songs by means of downloading and file sharing. Illicit practice of these activities threatens the thriving music industry. Despite the insistent campaign against piracy by the government, it would never be a resounding success unless we are going to support it wholeheartedly. It's our choice to make a change."(http://ezinearticles.com/?Helping-The-Pinoy-Music-Industry-In-Your-Own-Little-Ways&id=5733209)

Piracy can really affect not just OPM but also the the music industry. If people will continue buying pirated CDs and music videos, the number of people buying original copies of the albums will of course decrease. Filipino people is now using the advantage of technologies in order to earn income or to pay less than what we are supposed to pay. For us Filipinos it's better to buy a CD worth 50 pesos that has the same content as the 250 pesos original copy of an album. Though pirated CDs have a poor quality people who entertain this products are not given the satisfation. And as the result they will not appreciate the beauty of OPM because they thought that the poor quality audio is just the same as the original.