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October 13, 2005
Doing Business with the Pirates
Entertainment companies worldwide worry about a generation of consumers accustomed to free downloadable music, but they worry most about China a potential market of 1.3 billion people, many of them used to playing by Napster rules and selling bootleg copies to the rest of the world. Last year, 95 percent of the film discs sold in China were pirated copies, as were 85 percent of music recordings, according to the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a coalition of U.S. industry groups
Posted by shak at October 13, 2005 9:06 AM