  China is struggling amidst a deluge of pirated material
Comments     Threshold   RE: Piracy is rampant in China By
lhlinlhlin on 1/17/2008 9:35:01 PM , Rating: 3 In fact, at the
beginning of December I saw fully packaged Crysis games and Die
Hard dvds on the shelves in professional looking packaging that
were illegal copies. They can't easily control is because the
average income over there is so low and people don't have money
that of course they turn to piracy and other illegal activities.
Those probably are not the illegal copies. The reason why they
can be so cheap because the introductory video contains at least
15 minutes commercial (to sponsor the cost) which can't be Fast
Forwarded to skip away. Most of the movie consumption are from
the Internet Bar (Internet Cafe) not at the movie theaters or
DVD rental/purchase. Those internet cafes (around 120,000 stores
in China; at least 12 million sites) license the pirated content
from some portal sites who offer bitorrent or e-mule like files
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