China Says 'Mission Accomplished' On Stopping Copyright Infringement
from the wonder-how-that-works dept
With the US putting continued pressure on China about "stopping piracy," the government has been making noises lately about cracking down on infringement. Now, the Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce has declared the crackdown a success:Marking the end of a nine-month campaign against intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement with cases worth 3.43 billion yuan ($530 million), Vice Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei said the situation had taken a turn for the better.Of course, this is unlikely to actually slow down much infringement in the country, nor is it likely to make the US happy. They won't be happy until China is using intellectual property laws as a justification to block American competition... and then, suddenly, the US government won't be happy for a totally different reason -- never taking a break to realize that it was its own fault for pressuring the Chinese government to use these laws for its own purposes, rather than the way that some American companies want them to be used.
"You could say that there still exists some problems with China's IPR, but I don't endorse the idea that it is extremely serious," Jiang told reporters at a press conference.
Jiang said police had shutdown 12,854 illegal plants making pirated and counterfeit goods and arrested 9,031 suspects since the crackdown began in late October.
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Too bad the USA doesn't do it too.
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"and arrested 9,031 suspects"
Uh...they have more Plants than suspects? Weird...
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(and not with enough care - by the look of it!)
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As my pappy always use to say
Be careful what you wish for because you might get it. Ok, my pappy didn't ever say that, but maybe some will get the reference?
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Most people don't have a problem with this sort of thing being stamped out, and it's far easier to prove actual damages as well as a profit motive for this type of activity. It's a totally different animal to what gets called "piracy" in the usual stories round here.
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US says China's Baidu is notorious pirated goods market
ICE didn't seize Baidu.com.
Microsoft is parterning with a known piracy supporter.
Using Baidu MP3 Search.
For all that rhetoric about how IP is important when it comes down to it one thing China have shown the world is that if you have the guns nobody will mess with you, to achieve that you need to ignore all IP and build your market first and have the population number to do it.
ICE will never ever seize any Chinese assets in US soil because the Chinese would seize all American assets in their soil.
But ICE would do it to Spain and Britain because those countries are bitches.
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relevant
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14138267
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Don't you /ever/ get tired of being trivially wrong, Mike?
'You could say that there still exists some problems with China's IPR, but I don't endorse the idea that it is extremely serious," Jiang told reporters at a press conference.'
And by the way, neither do YOU, Mike, believe it "extremely serious", as you don't want copyright at all! So you agree with the Commie!
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Wise man once said...
Their country got where it is today, in large part, by copying the property of others both intellectual and physical. With this in mind, I'm betting that China has no intention of putting any serious effort at all into "stamping" out piracy. If anything, expect to see a giant boom in "VPN" offerings from China with a major marketing push into countries with draconian IP laws.... They will get rich, while we spend our money beating each other to death with lawsuits and/or make criminals out of common citizens.
For them.. its a win win!
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They aren't suggesting that they are stopping their efforts. It isn't like they are hanging up their jackboots and closing up shop.
The only mission accomplished here is perhaps brainwashing more techdirt readers.
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They love to copy
Pfff, Pirate Valhalla.
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