AP - U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez urged Beijing on Tuesday to toughen a crackdown on pirated goods and other copyright infringements, saying failure to do so could fuel an American backlash against trade with China.



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This is so friggin ignorant. Gutierrez has no idea about how large the scope of priacy is in this country... absolutely clueless.

i heard piracy is a huge part of china's economy? is that right or bs?

It is huge. Put it this way, I have tried numerous times to buy legitimate copies of DVD's, VCD's and computer software and couldn't. They just aren't available. When you ask for them the salespeople look at you like you're mental and when they stop laughing ask you "Why?"

Even the CD's for sale in Wal-Mart are pirated!! When I want a legit copy I have to buy it in HK. And this is true all up and down China. This is MASSIVE. For an instructive example the sales people here when you buy stuff they don't say "its real" they say "its a good copy".

Its so wrong that I download pirated software for my computer because it feels more right to get it for free by stealing online it than to "buy" it hence paying someone else to steal it. Its more morally correct to me. I'd never do this back home but here I am.

Also as of late Amazon will no longer ship to China or Hong Kong because someone finally figured out how the pirates were getting a lot of their originals to burn.

wow.....didnt know it was that big!