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中国和美国是在它是关于知识产权的新闻再和这次。 美国指责中国不采取知识分子 物产法律严重. 中国反应了 给美国谚语的中指. 这我的作为。

从美国透视
软件，电影海盗行为，并且音乐在中国不是仅繁茂的，它是缺省。 我在福州就此而言不知道一家唯一商店，我可能买电影， (或窗口景色的一个合法的拷贝)。 当许多企业屈服到压力使用合法的软件时，这是离案件很远的地方为私有消费者。 并且就电影，买合法的DVD在中国是为想要炫耀他们的财富的收藏家或那些人预留的仪式。

清楚地，更多能做。 有一个购物中心的一个整个地板这里在致力卖被盗版的软件和电影的福州。 圆盘由重量购买批发为轻微地然后被卖在一美元之下每片断。 它是否是Lionel Richie的最巨大的命中、Adobe Photoshop CS2或者Borat电影，一切可以为价格被购买2公升瓶百事可乐。 This isn’t exactly an environment that you could say is making it difficult to distribute contraband.

From the Chinese Perspective
It’s not as easy as it sounds. China is a country of 1.3 billion people with a large governmental web spreading out from Beijing to every little nook and cranny across the Chinese empire. Enforcing regulations in big cities can be relatively efficient, but passing these laws down to small locals (where contraband is often produced), is not as simple as it is in the US, or any other country in the world for that matter.

US companies aren’t really losing that much money. This is just conjecture here, but say piracy was suddenly eliminated in China. It is difficult to imagine droves of Chinese rushing out to buy legitimate DVD’s and software. Many workers in China still make less than a dollar a day, and it would be a stretch to expect them to spend an entire days’ wages on a movie. This is even more so the case for software. People making $150 a month, would simply not buy a $300 copy of Photoshop. They would either not use it, or more likely, find other ways to obtain the intellectual property (i.e. downloading, or burning copies of the original).

It will be interesting to see what the next few moves will bring about. This is not the first time the US has pressured China on Intellectual Property Rights. China has responded (at least according to what I have read in Chinese media) by busting several piracy rings, and increasing the penalties for offenders. A friend of mine here in Fuzhou even witnessed a small store get busted for selling pirated discs. Nonetheless, it still seems finding pirated movies and software is no more difficult than it was three years ago, and finding the real stuff is still virtually impossible.

Benjamin Ross, Ben’s Blog