US Targeting China In New Anti-Piracy Drive

oxide7 writes "The United States will make China 'a significant focus' of its beefed-up efforts to fight global piracy and counterfeiting of US goods ranging from CDs to manufactured products, a US official said on Wednesday. The International Intellectual Property Alliance, which represents US copyright industry groups, has estimated lost sales in China at more than $3.5 billion in 2009 due to piracy of US music, movies and software."

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Re:Would be nice to see

[mcgrew]

If they claim to defend their financial interest in their products it's raises the question: Why don't they actually fight the infringement that causes the damage to the revenue? This clearly demonstrates that the MAFIAA was not interested in protecting their existing revenue stream, but are only trying to create an additional (unrelated) stream of litigation-revenue from the consumers who commit level 1 infringement.

A more logical reason is their hidden agenda -- fighting their competetion, indie labels. The RIAA has radio, which never (except low watt college stations) plays indie music, while the indies have P2P. There actually is monetary damage there; if I buy four $5 indie CDs, that's twenty bucks I don't have to buy a Mattellica CD. That's a very good reason for fighting P2P, but they can't very well admit it, can they?