This book addresses the persistence of the optical media piracy trade in the Philippines and Vietnam. It goes beyond arguments of defective law enforcement and copyright legal systemsby applyingsociological perspectives to examine the socio-economic forces behind the advent of piracy in the region. Usingdocumentary and ethnographic data, in addition to resistance and ecological theories in sociology of law and technology as the overall theoretical framework, the book investigates factors that contribute to this phenomenonand factors that impede the full formalization of the optical media...