Odex – The Sign Of The New Breed of Singapore “Entrepreneurs”
1637 days agoIf you live in Singapore and you are quite active online, I am sure you have heard of a little greedy company called Odex by now. Yes, that’s the Singapore company going around “suing” everyone they can lay their hands on for downloading illegal anime from the P2P networks. It looks like we have our very own little Rambus right here in Singapore! What they do is to get the IP addresses of downloaders from some sort of tracker in the US, then go to Singnet and other ISPs and get the actual physical address of those IP addresses, after which they send threatening letters to those addresses. Yes, this is now the latest breed of Singapore Entrepreneurs. All you have to do is to sue or threaten.
I am actually quite ashamed of these people. They are lacking integrity. I mean using the law (or the lack of it) to get cash if your business is not doing well is kind of low, even for a Singaporean businessman.
Nowadays you don’t have to think of a great idea to start a business. Heck, you don’t even need to do anything innovative. Just buy old unwanted stuff that nobody wants and try to sell them. And if nobody buys them, blame it on illegal downloaders and threaten them for cash. So now if your business is not doing well, this gives all of you “businessman” something to consider. Just threaten others with heavy fines and jail times! What’s easier than that. You may even make more money than from legitimate businesses. Think of this, if you send 1,000 letters, telling them to pay you S$5000 each or else and since most will pay since they don’t want any more problems, that would be S$5 million dollars in the bank at the cost of a few pieces of paper and the services of a photocopier shop. I mean, sure you need to get the IP addresses first, that may cost you a bit. But hey you could do even better, start your very own Bittorrent software and trace the IP addresses yourself.
I think I will start a software company myself selling old outdated software for the DOS operating system and try to market it to the dumb ass Singaporeans. And if Singaporeans don’t buy, I will claim that our prices is already so low and with that, it means that it is not the software I am selling is crap but there are a lot of people illegally downloading software. I will then start to send threatening letters to households telling them to pay me S$5000 or else I will raid their homes. And just when you thought that Singaporeans do not have any entrepreneurial spirit, they surprise you completely.
