Existence of Illegal Music product
Year by year, people become more creative. They begin to create and innovate something new for the society but, unfortunately, at the same time, the price which must be paid for getting those goods becomes higher and higher and it created an opportunity for creating substitute goods to give almost same satisfaction to the society by paying a lower price. These substitute goods exist in various industry, from Personal Ware ( Sport Shoes, Shirt, T-SHIRT and etc ), Personal Care ( Parfume, soap, sampoo, etc ), Home appliances ( AC, VCD & DVD Player,etc ), Information Technology ( Software, Printer&Ink,etc ), Automotive ( Motorcycle,etc), book ( novel, textbook,dictionary, etc ) until Entertainment Industry ( cassette, CD, VCD, MP3, DVD ) which later known as Illegal Goods or Counterfeit Goods. From the industries mentioned, the most vulnerable industries are IT ( esp. Software ) and Entertainment Industry by considering its cheap cost of whether producing or reproducing. In Indonesia, the piracy in entertainment industry also becomes one problem for the country, consider that, the quantity of Illegal cassette, CD, VCD, MP3, DVD begin to exceed the quantity of the original one ( see Figure 5 ) and this exceed-quantity means loss for the country and Music Industry itself.
As the more detailed quantity, In 2001, Total Illegal Music Product which exist in the market is around 290.81 millions. From those quantities : VCD is 275.1 millions, CD : 1.34 millions, and cassette 14.2 millions. While the original one at that time just 44.03 millions
In 2002, Total Illegal Music Product increases to 363.5 millions where VCD is 343.9 millions, cassette 17.4 millions, and CD 1.6 millions. While the original one just 34.2 millions. In 2003, Total Illegal Music Product which exist in the market is around 356.2 millions where VCD is 328,6 millions, cassette is 17.4 millions. At that time, DVD begin to exist and exceed the quantity of Illegal CD where at that time, Illegal DVD reached 8.49 millions, and CD is 1.6 millions. While the original one just 35.8 millions. In 2004, Total Illegal Music Product which exist in the market is around 331.3 millions where VCD is 305.6 millions, CD is 1.5 millions, cassette is 16.2 millions, and DVD is as much as 7.9 millions while the original one just 39.7 millions.
