China has launched another campaign to tackle piracy.
The new campaign, based on the achievements made by the recent
100-day national campaign, aims to strengthen everyday supervision
to further clean up the video, software and publication markets and
raise the public's awareness on how to use legal copies, the
national anti-pornography and anti-piracy office said.
The campaign will hunt out producers of pirated movies, books
and software and break their distribution chains. The smuggling of
pirating equipment will be severely punished, a statement from the
office said.
The campaign will target street vendors and mobile distributors
of pirated DVDs, CDs or software and those who sell pirated
products at markets will have their pitches taken away, it
said.
It will also target those who produce pirated textbooks and
those who organize the purchase of pirated textbooks or reference
books will be held accountable, the statement said.
China launched its biggest ever crackdown on piracy in July. The
three-month campaign, which ended in September, confiscated more
than 58 million pieces of pirated movies, music, books and
software.
Thanks to the campaign, distributors of DVDs and CDs in Beijing
and Guangzhou saw a 20 percent rise in their sales in July and
August, the office said.
(Xinhua News Agency December 13, 2006)