Talk:ZOLA PROJECT/@comment-112.204.230.66-20180311072924/@comment-53539-20180621063100

Yep.

That reminds me.

Funny things is the idea of a true Philippines Vocaloid has been discussed and there are is a reason why one itself is less likely to happen. For starters there are multiple dialects there and a lot of the time people (fans) always suggest tagalog. As you can see from this map though, taglog isn't even the most major of the dialects. While it is regarded though as the national language and there are several other native languages too.

http://www.csun.edu/~lan56728/majorlanguages.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_Philippines

While there are over 40 million speakers, there are other issues too. But its not in the top 20 languages. In fact its the 42nd most notable language for name of natives and not even the top 28 for overall speakers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

Plus the wealth dispersity means that you don't have many actualy people who could buy the Vocaloids. Pirating is illegal with a hefty jail sentence if caught, but they literally have a rate of 70%. Considering North America has something like a 16% overall pirating rate, its pretty much the issue. While that isn't enough to make it into the top 20 pirating countries, it does mean 7 out of every 10 software copies aren't legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Philippines http://bworldonline.com/content.php?section=26&title=By-the-numbers-Software-piracy&id=94960 https://sdtimes.com/license-misuse/top-20-countries-software-piracy/

Though there are a large number of fans in the Philippines, most pirate the Vocaloid software instead of buying it. We had the whole Ricardo issue early on wherein we were linking to a guy's videos only to realise in one he actually showed his use of pirating. He pretty much turned around and said that to oust out him for pirating was to be racially insensitive on all Philippines as they can't afford Vocaloid. I'd argue on this not being the case, but it did bring up the issue in 2011 about this and how there is doubtful of there being one.

I don't feel the pirating issue is much of a target at particular groups as it impacts everyone I will add, the rules of the wiki staff no wiki should be light hearted on the subject of pirating. For example, just as we can't do certain things linked to the pirate software or songs, the One Piece wiki can't upload entire chapters of the manga.