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Various of singer Le Quyen performing on stage2. Band playing on stage 3. Singer Le Quyen performing on stage4. Exterior of venue where Le Quyen is performing5. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Le Quyen, Singer...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHo Chi Minh City - 13 October 2012\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of singer Le Quyen performing on stage\u003cbr/\u003e2. Band playing on stage \u003cbr/\u003e3. Singer Le Quyen performing on stage\u003cbr/\u003e4. Exterior of venue where Le Quyen is performing\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Le Quyen, Singer :\u003cbr/\u003e\"Whenever I release an album, the songs are immediately ripped and posted online illegally for streaming and download. This repeated activity really frustrates me. The websites take away the royalties which are supposed to be mine.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. User of music file sharing website zing.vn Nguyen Anh Tuan, surfing the web\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of address bar on computer screen as types in zing.vn website name\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of Tuan\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of computer screen, Tuan opening and streaming songs\u003cbr/\u003e10. Tuan putting on headphones\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up of hand on computer trackpad\u003cbr/\u003e12. Computer screen, Tuan clicking download songs\u003cbr/\u003e13. Tuan listening to streaming  music\u003cbr/\u003e14. Computer screen showing download status\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Nguyen Anh Tuan, User of zing.vn :\u003cbr/\u003e\"I go to zing(.vn) to look for my favourite songs, which I can either listen as they stream or download them as mp3 files. You can find pretty much all the songs on zing. The website also update latest music video and international charts.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of singer Le Quyen applying make up\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of Le Quyen putting on lipstick\u003cbr/\u003e18. Le Quyen entering stage from changing room\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of Le Quyen walking on stage\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of audience \u003cbr/\u003e21. Le Quyen singing\u003cbr/\u003e22. Reverse of Le Quyen finishing song, audience applauding\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Le Quyen, Singer\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm sure that zing is aware of what they are doing is wrong, but I think what they are afraid is that other singers will follow suit and put pressure on them if I win the case.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eHo Chi Minh City - 12 October 2012 \u003cbr/\u003e24. Close up of logo of reality show Vietnam Idol\u003cbr/\u003e25. Various of Vietnam Idol contestants singing while wearing t-shirts reading (in Vietnamese) \"Listen responsibly\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Mid of judging panel, song writer and music producer Quoc Trung sitting far left\u003cbr/\u003e27. Close up of Quoc Trung\u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid of Vietnam Idol contestants singing\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Quoc Trung, Song writer and music producer\u003cbr/\u003e\"The piracy issue is destroying the music industry. It takes away the artists' motivation to work harder and to be more inspired. It thwarts producer's plans to invest in music products with high quality.\"\u003cbr/\u003e30. Various of Vietnam Idol contestants singing (no restrictions) \u003cbr/\u003e31. Mid of audience\u003cbr/\u003e32. Mid of Vietnam Idol contestants singing\u003cbr/\u003eOnline music piracy is on the rise in Vietnam.\u003cbr/\u003eNow singers and musicians, many of whom are struggling to make a living from their work, say they have had enough of their music being given away for free and are fighting back.\u003cbr/\u003eOn a stage in downtown Ho Chi Minh city, Le Quyen is singing to over 200 of her fans, who are packed into a popular tea house on a Saturday evening. \u003cbr/\u003eLe Quyen, an established diva, belts out love ballads for over two hours every week. \u003cbr/\u003eThese mini concerts are her main source of income.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite being one of the most popular singers in Vietnam, she says she earns little to nothing from selling CDs. \u003cbr/\u003eLe Quyen says music piracy is ripping the heart out of her career.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Whenever I released an album, the songs are immediately ripped and posted online illegally for streaming and download. This repeated activity really frustrates me. The websites take away the royalties which are supposed to be mine.\"\u003cbr/\u003eZing.vn is the most popular website of its kind, offering free streaming and downloading of music. \u003cbr/\u003eThe heavy traffic on the site has made it the sixth-most visited website in Vietnam.\u003cbr/\u003eAround 15 percent of its visitors come from outside the country. \u003cbr/\u003eAs well as social media and free download of Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and international repertoire, the site offers various other online services such as gaming, photo sharing, cell phone ring tones and instant messaging. \u003cbr/\u003eZing is owned by the VNG Corporation, an Internet gaming company that has received significant investment by venture capital company IDG Ventures Vietnam.\u003cbr/\u003eThe company is managed by Henry Nguyen, a Vietnamese American who in 2008 married the daughter of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.\u003cbr/\u003eThat, and the ease in which it operates, has led to perceptions by some in Vietnam, that Zing has the backing of top people in the government. \u003cbr/\u003eIn a statement, the government says it has passed laws against intellectual property theft, including online piracy. \u003cbr/\u003e\"In Vietnam, all individuals and organisations doing business in all fields including providing music products are equal before the law,\" the government statement said.\u003cbr/\u003eZing declined to comment when approached by AP Television about on the issues raised by this story.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the piracy claims surrounding zing.vn have impacted on the site's top advertisers. \u003cbr/\u003eCompanies Coca-Cola and Samsung have both pulled their ads from the site, citing acts of infringement, such as the unauthorised copying and distribution of copyrighted material.\u003cbr/\u003eNguyen Anh Tuan is a frequent user of zing.vn.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says the site is full of his favourite music.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I go to zing(.vn) to look for my favourite songs, which I can either listen as they stream or download them as mp3 files. You can find pretty much all the songs on zing. The website also update latest music video and international charts.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMany in the industry have no choice but to work with zing even if it distributes music and films for free. \u003cbr/\u003eThe site has influence within the music scene , having its own music charts and sponsoring an MTV-style music awards ceremony. \u003cbr/\u003eSinger Le Quyen says she has now had enough of losing money to music downloading.\u003cbr/\u003eShe says she is suing zing and eight similar websites, claiming they have ignored requests from her to remover her songs from their site.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm sure that zing is aware of what they are doing is wrong, but I think what they are afraid is that other singers will follow suit and put pressure on them if I win the case.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSome in Vietnam's music industry predict zing and other websites will embrace a more legitimate model, rather like the site Baidu in neighbouring China, which after years of complaints from international and local record labels about pirated content signed a licensing deal with its former critics last year. \u003cbr/\u003eMajor Western record labels have been in early talks with zing and other sites, but there is no deal as yet.\u003cbr/\u003eMeantime, none of the sites are taking down their unlicensed content because doing so would mean that users would flock to rival sites.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe problem is especially acute in Vietnam, with inaction by a government that sees no political upside in cracking down on what is seen by many as victimless crimes.\u003cbr/\u003eBut this has pushed the industry to the point of collapse and more singers and musicians are now raising their voices against the long standing issue. \u003cbr/\u003eProminent song writer and music producer Quoc Trung has now started a campaign to fight against music piracy called \"Listen Responsibly\"\u003cbr/\u003eOn a live broadcast of the popular television reality music competition Vietnam Idol, all contestants and the judging panel wore the campaign slogan (in Vietnamese\"Listen Responsibly\") on their T-shirts. \u003cbr/\u003eTrung says the campaign is one effort to save the country's music industry.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The piracy issue is destroying the music industry. 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