Ministry to fight digital piracy

PUTRAJAYA: The Communications and Multimedia Ministry is discussing with other ministries and agencies to curb the spread of digital piracy, said its minister, Gobind Singh Deo.

He said it was time that aggressive efforts were made to amend laws to ensure sterner action, such as heavier and proportionate fines or jail penalties, were drawn up.

He said digital piracy syndicates were making easy profits and they did not fear the law or punishment.

“It has been brought to my attention that every time a complaint is lodged about digital piracy, it is pushed from one agency to another.

“If this goes on, the public will lose faith in our system. When we took action, we found that the problem was getting out of control.

“So, the suggestion was that my ministry will discuss how to get all the related agencies to be placed under one ministry,” he said at the Kuala Lumpur Digital Content Anti-Piracy Conference here on Wednesday.

Gobind was among the guest panellists at a discussion regarding the digital piracy landscape and overview of issues in Malaysia.

Gobind said his ministry would meet stakeholders and interested parties so that a comprehensive solution could be drawn up.