Nintendo Supports US's Anti-Piracy China Measure

Earlier today we discussed the China/US Piracy clash, and it's worth noting that yesterday Nintendo came out in strong support of the US's position. Gamasutra reports that an estimated 7.7 million counterfeit gaming products have been seized in the last four years of piracy raids. "According to Nintendo, China has continued to be the leading production site and exporter for counterfeit Nintendo products, and has the largest domestic consumption, and in 2006 alone the company estimates that the overall industry lost $762 million due to piracy. Commented Nintendo in a statement: 'Despite the millions of counterfeit Nintendo products seized from retailers and manufacturing plants in China through the years, there has only been one criminal prosecution. Numerous factories, where tens of thousands of counterfeit Nintendo products were seized, escaped with only trivial fines or no penalty at all.'"

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Real use of piracy

[torqer]

If only the Chinese would pirate (clone) the Nintendo Wii hardware... so I could actually get one.

Re:Real use of piracy

[rts008]

Timely article....I was just asking myself where I wanted to go on vacation!

Chinese pirates RULE!