Slate has a fascinating article on buying pirate DVDs in Shanghai. I love this quote:
At Sasha’s, the expats explained that buying real DVDs wasn’t an option, especially for the Chinese, because real DVDs cost 10 times more and weren’t even available. (The TV producer claimed she knew of a store that carried them, but the others disputed this.) Fake DVDs, moreover, often were real DVDs: The same factories that produced and shipped real ones during the day produced and shipped fake ones at night.
Now, maybe the MPAA should start focusing their anti-piracy efforts on those factories and not on people who have bought a DVD or paid to go see a movie!
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