China Sharpens Swords in Internet Anti-Piracty Campaign
China has begun a new 100 days campaign to crackdown on Internet piracy.
The National Copyright Administration said the campaign will crackdown on piracy of:
1. music
2. movies
3. software
4. books
5. private-run game servers
6. tools damaging Internet technological protection (viruses)
The key areas that will be targeted are:
1. Beijing
2. Shanghai
3. Chingqing
4. Jilin
5. Zhejiang
6. Jiangsu
7. Anhui
In an earlier 100-day anti-piracy campaign, jointly run by 10 ministries and national departments China destroyed nearly 13 million pirated CDs, DVDs and software products, but not until they made copies of them first.
Seriously, it is healthy to see China step up its anti-piracy efforts.
But, it seems to me that when people start pirating things that are made in China, by Chinese, for the Chinese, then and only then will the thieves understand what it means to lose their intellectual property. And then, things will/might change…maybe.
What do you think?
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