From The Christian Science Monitor: “Anyone who’s visited a backstreet market in China’s capital has probably been accosted by someone selling inexpensive music CDs, movie DVDs, or computer software. The discs themselves are made in China. Cheap labor sees to that.
But the information on the discs – the new ideas and creativity – mostly come from the US, Japan, or Europe. Buy one and you’re an accomplice to theft on a global scale.
Intellectual property rights are about as honored in China as human rights are. One difference is that Western and Japanese companies lose an estimated $80 billion a year because of China’s infringement on patents and copyrights through piracy and counterfeiting.”
