DCArt opened this issue on Mar 09, 2005 ยท 31 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 09 March 2005 at 1:34 PM
The blow must be dealt to the COMMERCIAL warez traffic, the same that make million of dollars yearly printing counterfeit CDs and DVDs in sweatshops and selling it worldwide in countries that could never afford the real thing...
Well.....last that I heard, we aren't planning on invading Red China in order to shut down pirate factories. Factories that are endorsed, and even run, by the Chinese government.
Unfortunately, there is very little that anyone can realistically do about the situation.
BTW - foreign movies and computer games are regularly copied & sold -- technically legally -- in this country, too. It might violate international copyright law, but who's going to enforce that?
One can easily find such items for sale on eBay.
BTW - American-made major release movies are openly copied & sold in places like Japan and Hong Kong.
So.....we return the favor by doing the same thing with their stuff.
Being legal (by local law) doesn't necessarily make something right. But that's how it works.