On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:04:15 -0800, Darren New wrote:

>>> What makes you think they're pirated?
>> 
>> because they were too cheap is the usual answer.
> 
> But the "real" DVDs are cheap in china too. Nobody has the money to pay
> a week's salary for a USD$20 DVD in china.

I don't know that the real discs make it to China.  China doesn't exactly 
have strong intellectual property laws.  I've heard it said (by people 
who have worked with companies in China) that if you operate an 
international company in China and you have proprietary data that might 
cross the network there, *don't* let it cross the network there.  The 
Chinese government can mandate that you put a government-provided sniffer 
on the network, and turn over any encryption keys that might be in use to 
protect your IP.

In one case, I heard of a company not complying with the government 
"request" to put the sniffer on the network, and the company got a visit 
from the Chinese military to enforce the request.

Jim

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