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I was genuinely amazed to learn about Nigeria's feature film production volume. I consider myself a global thinker and I'm aware of many cases where technology has put developing nations, or those not considered to be world powers in money or resources, on the map or brought attention to the people in those countries. The Nollywood situation is intriguing. This is a direct transference of technology to real world issues. Bootleg copies of videos have been produced for decades, but now that similar technology is being used to create original content, the efforts to create respect for local copyright (where there is none for non-local product) is interesting. It's hard not to question the obvious. If it is not right to steal our own content, why is it OK to steal the work of other humans? The answer seems to be merely one of enforcement. It's OK if I don't get caught and the police don't care about the other stuff. This is not a new issue, but still sad for the future of a technologically leapfrogging society.
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