Music Industry's Future Foretold in China?

sapphire writes "An article today in the International Herald Tribune provides a look at music piracy from the point-of-view of pop stars in China. China is a country forced to deal with the reality of unchecked piracy of digital media products. Will their experience lead to new business models for the world-wide recording industry?"

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Mostly untrue rubish

[Hao Wu]

Come on. I have known this ever since I witnessed a record company busted in New York and almost the same company in Cambridge in 1996. The whole store was raided for bootlegs. Where were they manufactured most commonly? All over the world. Rio, Portugal, Italy, South America to name a few. So few were from China, though there may have been recordings from there too.

George Bush is behind this. Bush hates China or has a grudge against the leaders (who are overly brutal, I admit it). He has said that Chinese "all look alike". I suppose if you've never been to the largest place on earth, you might think that. If your agenda is to make certain Chinese smoke and look sophisticated! So that your tobacco company stock will rise! Come on.