A nationwide summer campaign will target pirated and illegally imported DVDs, Music CDs, and Computer Software.
The Chinese Ministry of Culture launched the “campaign of inspection of the cultural market” yesterday in responses to “cases of copyright infringement and piracy in the domestic audio and video market” that have “rebounded alot (sic) in recent months”.
According to Xinhua, the Chinese Government’s official press agency, Chinese law enforcement workers seized 154 million pieces of illegal audio and video works and 10.45 million copies of illegal publications across China in 2004. In the first quearter of 2005, Chinese authorities confiscated 48.52 million copies of illegal audio and video discs.