[Californiajones]

Uh, anyone want to guess as to the real intent of all this Chinese piracy of western intellectual property rights? Methinks it's economic warfare, Mao/Lenin/Marx's style. Hollywood and the entertainment conglomerates need to stop salivating over China's 1.3 billion people and recognize they are being attacked by China's totalitarian, militaristic Marxist oligarchs. Dictatorship of the proletariat, my ass. Dictatorship in Beijing is still a commie scheme to enrich the elites at the expense of their own people and the rest of the world. Sorry Ms. Rowling, but they want your bucks and they want to demolish your ability to make more billions off Harry Potter. All is fair in love and war but the West has to see it is already AT WAR with Beijing. So far, only Taiwan is wise to them.

[John Filson]

WMT last trade - 49.39.

[nmh]

The Communist Chinese have NO regard for the rule of law.

If you think this is bad, you ought to see the pirated software they have over in HK. It's rare for folks to buy a legitimate copy. Copyrights mean nothing to them.

[heleny]

An electronic publishing expert said that with close cooperation and a digital camera it was possible for a team of people to get such a long book on to the Internet in one day, the daily reported.

The pirated versions usually appear to be the work of someone using a scanner (or a digital camera, I suppose) with a text conversion program. There are usually many typos (i=l, m=rr, etc. from the program) and occasionally repeated or missing pages from human error.

This book also appeared on Russian sites, and when I last checked, google had those pages cached, although the direct links were broken.