Embassy is essentially showing its support by being on its site,” said Mimi Nguyen, an American who has been trying fruitlessly to get Zing to take down some 10,000 songs owned by her family’s business. “Here we are as an American company trying to set things right with one of the biggest pirates in Vietnam, but the U.S. It also noted to a lack of options in a country where the communist government controls the media, saying “there were few spaces for public discourse and intermittent access to Facebook,” referring to a block the government sometimes puts on the American social networking site.īut not everyone thinks engaging with Zing is the right thing to do. Its statement noted that the site had removed, at its request, the link to infringing material that appears on other Zingme pages as a matter of course. copyright interests and that it sometimes uses its Zingme page to post about copyright abuse. The embassy said it recognizes that Zing infringes on U.S. Samsung said in late October that it also was closing its Zingme account, for the same reason. The move challenged Zing’s business model and was praised by recording industry groups. But it also raises this question: Is Washington legitimizing a pirate site that record labels, singers and industry groups say ignores requests that it take down infringing material.Ĭoca-Cola and Samsung pulled their advertising from the site recently because of piracy concerns after questions by The Associated Press.
The embassy’s presence shows just how mainstream pirate sites have become in Vietnam, where the government does nothing to stop them from operating. But with space for public diplomacy limited in communist Vietnam, the American Embassy uses its “Zingme” account to reach out to young people in Vietnam as it seeks to build closer ties with its former enemy. Washington is a vocal proponent of intellectual property rights in Vietnam as it is around the world, and a site like Zing would be shut down in the United States. government, which maintains a bustling social media account there. But a few clicks inside the site reveal a surprising presence: the U.S. The free-to-download bonanza has pushed Vietnam’s Zing.vn into the ranks of the globe’s top 550 websites. HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietman It’s a wildly popular website laden with unlicensed songs and Hollywood movies, a prime exhibit of a digital problem that is strangling the music industry in Asia and eroding legitimate online sales around the world.
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