Navigating China's Pirated Waters
Reuters has a short article about piracy in China and the trials & tribulations of one journalist. She delves into the market, picking up a bootleg copy of Windows 7, and finds that you often get what you pay for.
Reuters has a short article about piracy in China and the trials & tribulations of one journalist. She delves into the market, picking up a bootleg copy of Windows 7, and finds that you often get what you pay for.
One shopkeeper, a petite woman in her 30s, was clearly impressed by my well-heeled attire and assumed I was a seasoned buyer of pirated wares rampant throughout China. "If you buy 10 you get it cheaper," she said in broken English. In a sign of how far China has come since its Communist Iron Rice Bowl days, there was even the promise of customer satisfaction: "The installation instructions are in English and if it's not working you can bring it back to change," she said.