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China Slams US Piracy Complaint

bingoathome writes with a link to a BBC article on China's criticism of the US over its complaint to the WTO. The Bush administration is breaking its long-standing policy of backroom conversations with Beijing to condemn the country's continued 'failure to address copyright piracy and counterfeiting.' "The US says that China's failure to enforce copyright laws is costing software, music and book publishers billions of dollars in lost sales ... The US has been threatening a WTO complaint against China since 2005. It said on Tuesday that the two cases had been submitted to the WTO. One case claims that Beijing's poor enforcement of copyright and trademark protections violates WTO rules. The other contends that illegal barriers to hamper sales of US films, music and books. "

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  1. Hey, Windows/Linux refugees! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Still looking for the "maximize" button when your Mac has "zoom" instead? Take the hint, switcheurs: If you can't cope with seeing more than one window at a time, GTFO of our platform. The Mac wasn't designed for one-track minds.

  2. USA ? by chrisranjana.com · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By US here should we assume M$crosof$ ? I thought it already had in place systems for online activation and such especially in vista. Why can't they ban the whole IP address block of china from activation ? Or is it not that simple ?

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    Chris ,
    Php Programmers.