Folks - there is a very simple rule in HFV
"Any posts that encourage illegal intent will be removed and the account disabled."
Cheers
After staying away for a few days consequent to participating (partly) in certain controversial and heated threads raising the ugly face of 'divine' interventions, I thought sanity would finall prevail but now I feel this is the last nail in the coffin and I don't think I will continue participating in this forum any more. Before parting,...
I have been a member in another great global forum (audioasylum) which has been highly enjoyable because they have two fundamental posting rules:
(1) Debate about audio, even when heated, is encouraged. There is absolutely no censorship and they do not and cannot police every post. Unfortunately, here we are moving in the wrong direction.
(2) You can post anything relevant to the world of audio, video, music etc. You decide what is relevant and if others feel it is irrelevant, they don't respond and your thread dies. As simple as that.
Now, who is talking about legal and illegal business here? If someone posts that X product is available in gray market at 50% of MRP charged at retail outlets, does it mean that people are going to queue up there to buy it? If someone sells a pirated DVD, it is illegal and liable to fines and arrest, but walk around markets selling several products, are law enforcement agencies empowered to arrest these shopwallahs and confiscate their goods? You must be kidding. Watching pornography in Internet is illegal but does it mean the government in India is blocking all those sites like they do in this part of the world. Does it mean discussing sex becomes illegal?
Finally, do you mean to say that all the so-called authorised sellers of equipment are operating inside the legal boundary in the strictest terms? Come on, guys exporting garments, coir products, spices etc use their export credit to import audio and video equipment and keep a different front to market them, it is a known secret in our country. It is legal, no doubt, but what about ethics and morality?
Ah, that is the problem with us even after 63 years of independence. Never do anything illegal, but never bother about morals, scruples and ethics. As long as you are within legal boundaries, the rest is all okay and will be tolerated.
I am sorry for this but had to react. I remember an old book I read once, The Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace. It is about a book which authorities deem pornographic and want to ban it and even go to the extent of making a rapist confess that he commited the crime instigated by the book! If you guys believe people like us do not have the maturity to distinguish between good and bad, and writing about gray market and such stuffs pollute audiophiles' minds here, I am sorry, I am the wrong person to be in the forum, and better keep away.
Thanks everyone, and happy listening.
murali
.Just don't name the exact shop names,since burma bazar have dealers that sell with bill to.
