Pantip Plaza Bangkok

This is the place to come if you need anything computer related, from the smallest memory chip to the most powerful desktop. Six floors and hundreds of shops, some with nothing more than plastic bins filled with parts. Plenty of software too. The software shops basically just have stacks and stacks of plastic sleeves, each sleeve containing the copy of a cover for a box of software. Page through the sleeves, find what you want and tell the clerk. He gets on his cell phone and calls someone, then tells you it will be about 10 minutes. The person on the other end then burns an illegal copy and when you return, there are your discs. They have virtually everything from entire operating systems to utitities and games. Cost? Generally 100 Thai Baht each; about $3 USD. Thai authorities claim to be cracking down on this sort of theft of intellectual property but you'd never know it at Pantip.