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The Real Problem With China

5 pointsby jranckover 14 years ago

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jranckover 14 years ago
IP theft continues to be a growing problem in China, I was reading a report that almost 60% of applications running on Asian computers are pirated (compare this to 20% in North America.)<p>Here's the report if you're interested: <a href="http://portal.bsa.org/globalpiracy2009/studies/09_Piracy_Study_Report_A4_final_111010.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://portal.bsa.org/globalpiracy2009/studies/09_Piracy_Stu...</a><p>I'm beginning to wonder if this is something we can continue to count our politicians to work on or if we need to address as a community. It will be interesting to see the stats in coming years due to the trend toward proprietary app stores and SaaS.