Overcoming the piracy stigma in China
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SHANGHAI -- Walk into the access-controlled room full of software developers at Bleum Inc.'s headquarters here and you can't miss the slogan written in large blue and black letters that stretches across the far wall: "Protect our customer."
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p2pnet.net News:- China, home to some of the world&#39;s most enthusiastic gamblers, says having drastically reduced the number of porn pages since the summer, itâs about to crack down on, âother illegal web sites including those for gambling and
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China's battle against intellectual property rights piracy will take "generations", a senior official said on Thursday, but added the main victims were Chinese and other countries should stop politicizing the issue.
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Someone needs to buy a firewall. The game industry, Rockstar in particular, has once again been a victim of piracy. After the big-time thefts over the last year or so, such as Half-Life 2, Doom
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BitTorrent is a wonderful way to download files with greater reliability than other conventional means, but of course that means that it is used greatly for piracy... apparently.
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The world's biggest electronics firms are working on systems to stop digital content being pirated.
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A consortium of Chinese university engineers and government officials, in cooperation with a Chinese video standards group that includes globally recognized manufacturers, plus the DVD Forum, have come to an agreement on a standard specification for a blue-laser disc mechanism and format specifically for the Chinese market. It means China could be producing low-price HD DVD mechanisms by this next summer.
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(InfoWorld) - Industry groups for producers of copyrighted material, including the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), Friday signed an agreement with the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) for protection against Internet piracy in China. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and The Publishers Association (TPA) of the U.K. also signed the memorandum, under which the industry groups will provide information about legal, authorized products distributed by their member companies in China. This allows the NCAC to distinguish between legal and pirated copy available online. Instances of Internet piracy will then be referred to the NCAC, which will then inform the proper legal authorities, the MPA said in a statement. The BSA estimated that total pirated software losses in 2005 in China were $3.9 billion, and that 86 percent of all software used in China during that year was pirated. The MPA estimated that the piracy rate for its members' products was 93 percent. Those numbers are calculated based on estimated sales if pirated or unauthorized products were not available. BSA members include major technology companies such as Apple Computer, Microsoft, and Dell. The MPA is comprised of Hollywood's largest film studios, such as Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is the international arm of the Motion Picture Association of America. Â
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Authorities have seized nearly 5 million pirated discs and arrested 870 people in a two-month anti-piracy operation in about a dozen Asia-Pacific nations.
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China is getting hard on porn. Those caught pushing pornographic images either through the Internet, mobile phones or pornography through phone sex, face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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China has "got to start putting  people in jail" to show it is serious about cracking down on  widespread counterfeiting and piracy that costs U.S. companies  billions of dollars in lost sales every year, a top Bush  administration official said.
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Waving fake DVDs and pirated books, officials from Hollywood and the American publishing industry have complained to US lawmakers that the rampant counterfeiting problem in China was wreaking havoc to their businesses.
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BEIJING - Chinese law enforcement agencies destroyed nearly 13 million pirated compact discs, DVDs and computer software Saturday in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported.
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The school's tool for fighting piracy on campus automatically isolates students fingered by the entertainment industry for allegedly sharing copyright files. It's another example of a university cracking down on illegal file trading. By Katie Dean.
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BEIJING  - Adding to pressure for China to stop rampant product piracy, two major U.S. business groups complained Thursday that abuses are getting worse and warned that lack of patent and copyright protection is hurting high-tech investment.
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With pressure increasing on the country to remedy its rampant piracy problems, China said Thursday it had shuttered 205 Web sites in an effort to begin to take control of the problem.
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Warner Bros.'s home video unit and  its Chinese partner on Thursday unveiled a new strategy to  fight DVD piracy in China by selling disks earlier, at lower  prices and in more stores than before with the backing of  government officials.