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Can China Win the Battle Against Pirates?
The China Teaching Web ^ | 7/22/2008 | Robert Vance

Posted on 07/21/2008 8:32:51 PM PDT by robertvance

In the end, this new copyright law is going to suffer the same fate that many other well intentioned laws have suffered in China; most people will probably never even hear about it. I was just in an Internet cafe yesterday. To my right someone was giggling as they watched Meet the Fockers and to my left someone else was spellbound by an old episode of Prison Break. What did I think? I guess I was happy that they could find some enjoyment in the midst of the harsh reality that probably confronts them every day in this developing country.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; copyright; entertainment; intellectualproperty; law; piracy
China's new copyright protection law is pretty much a joke. No one that I know here has ever even heard of it.
1 posted on 07/21/2008 8:32:52 PM PDT by robertvance
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I didn’t know they had a team in the National League. :)


2 posted on 07/21/2008 8:51:04 PM PDT by xp38
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I don’t think they want to win. Go to any Chinese city. You will see congregations of dozens of tables out in the open where you can buy darn near any western movie for under a US dollar. I highly doubt they will start to crack down on anything.


3 posted on 07/21/2008 8:56:16 PM PDT by DemonDeac
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(Pirate's) bribe / grea$e + (ChiCOMS' Party boss's) hand = "no change"
4 posted on 07/21/2008 8:57:12 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
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Darn... I thought this was going to be an article about pirates in Chinese waters...


5 posted on 07/21/2008 9:27:14 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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I don’t know, that Jack Sparrow is a slippery one, he is...


6 posted on 07/21/2008 11:06:50 PM PDT by wastedyears (Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
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