EAP 2 Writer's workshop
Name: Sungjun Ha
The title of this article is “Fighting Corruption Is a Global Concern" (October 11, 2005) from Ottawa Citizen(, written by David Zussman. Anti-corruption is hot issue to many countries and international organization. Lately in Beijing the conference on preventing corruption was opened. According to the report in Beijing conference, all kinds of corruption are a global issue which all countries and organization try to prevent with public eye. Especially, many internationally economical organization struggled to get rid of the corruption in public and private sectors. However, the corruption is not only an internationally economical organization's issue anymore. It is the problem that all countries and international organization have to participate in solving. The United Nations is looking at this issue with another view of the corruption. According to the United Nations development plan, the corruption helps the poorest people in the world to get the job or to make the money. In conclusion, many countries know why they have to agree with the anti-corruption. Additionally, in this conference four principles of declining the corruption are established, but in case of Canada these principles are considered as another burden. However, Canada is one of the best countries keeping the anti-corruption because many people, especially congressmen, made regulations against corruptions.; however, we do not know whether all Canadians agree or not.
China has the best technology to break the protection of any software which prevent the software from being copied illegally. In fact, many Korean buy illegal softwares from China because they are not only chief but useful as well. If the MicroSoft company introduce new version of Windows such as Window XP or Vista, they are sold in Korea soon. Moreover, it is not except for hardware. Like this, the corruption is a serious problem in intelligent, high technological society. Accordingly, the corruption must be eliminated because it declines the enhancement of the productive market economy based on full competition, breaks out the fair price of goods and services and violates the human rights.
First of all, the corruption can diminish or remove economical development constantly because it will preventthe enterprise from investing in newtechnological development. If all offices do not buy but copy the MicroSoft Office illegally, MicroSoft company will not sell anymore except for a few its CDs which will become original and will not obtain new capital to invest in developing new versions. Lately, many enterprises try to develop new technologies to produce new goods. Also, the information and intelligences such as consulting or supervision about the company are considered other services. Therefore, the corruption can occurs in wide sectors of the business. Most of CEOs or enterprises struggle to invent new technologies and strategies for more accomplishment. Likewise, this new technologies or goods and services must be prevented from being stolen or being corrupted because they become new capital of the enterprise. For example, if many companies did not improve new technologies or goods and services but only steal or corrupt them of other companies, nobody might be going to prosper in their new technology or Idea. After all, illegally unlimited corruption will cause the economical improvement to be decreased. For example, the Microsoft company make a lot of money from many electronic enterprise like Compaq and Toshiba that are producing personal computers or lap-top computers because these electronic enterprises use the Microsoft Windows in their products. That is to say, the MicroSoft company has a good capital we cannot see and cannot touch. Accordingly, the corruption is the worst strategy for the company to develop new goods and services.
Next, the illegal copy prevent from making fair price. The goods and services are made it by amounts of supply and demand in the market. However, unrestricted corruption causes overabundance of the goods and services and the price falls down. It is an abnormal phenomenon and the company which is corrupted may go bankrupt due to the corruption. For instance, lately many music companies change making music albums into making entertainers. Beatles, Elvis Preslee and Michel Jackson are famous singers in the world; however, recently we cannot find out popular singers. We just see entertainers who sing songs , appear in the movies or dramas and take pictures for Magazines. This is because music albums are not sold anymore owing to internet sites which provide MP3 files or music video files to us illegally and freely. Consequently, all copyrights, trademark, technologies and patents are protected in order to make fair price and to secure constant improvement of new technologies and services.
Finally, the music piracy is one of seriously illegal behaviors interfering individual property. In the capitalism and democracy the human rights are considered with the property right such as trademark right or copyright or patent right as well as right to vote and civil liberties. For example, we must include the references in our articles according to the rules for APA writing because the plagiarism is concerned with one of the crimes in the writing. In other words, all writers regard the citations like quotations and paraphrases as borrowing the knowledge of other people legally. So we have to recognise the importance of the reference. Like this, we do not use other people’s possessions without acceptance or reference since those which you use are not yours. Also, you might make people misunderstand those are yours. That is to say, using citations or paraphrases without references pretends to tell a lie and it is a kind of the crime. Accordingly, the music piracy is a severe crime interfering the personal rights in our society.
In conclusion, the music piracy does not help us to develop new technologies, to pay the fair price and to keep our rights. It is just one of the illegal behaviors. Now, we have to remember this fact forever: the creation will give us become a new property, but the corruption will make us lose all our things. In other words, if we do not purchase music CDs and obtain music files through music piracy, nobody will make music CDs or Music CDs will be expensive. After all, we will not be able to meet great musicians like Beatles and Elvis Preslee or be able to listen to new music through only radio and MTV. So, we must take part in removing music piracy as well as corruptions.
Reference
Zussman, D (October 11, 2005), Fighting Corruption Is Global Concern. Ottawa Citizen. pp. A15
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