Tag Archives: piracy

Baidu plots to divide and conquer music industry

An article about Baidu and its strategy to conquer the music industry.

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Caution! Microsoft Warning Line!

The Beijing News (新京报) for 4 September 2007 comes wrapped in Microsoft (微软)-supplied police tape.

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Big numbers for a book signing

Yu Dan (于丹) signs 15,060 copies of Things I Learned from Zhuangzi (于丹《庄子》心得); Wang Xiaobo’s complete works have typos that no one will take responsibility for.

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Bootleg faith

A pirated Bible (圣经) sold by a roadside bookseller in Jilin, China.

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The benefits of piracy
by Kaiser Kuo

Piracy as a window on the western world.

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by Kaiser Kuo

Media Schizophrenia in China
by David Moser

An original piece from David Moser about a side of the Chinese media environment that is usually ignored by Western commentators, and avoided by Chinese writers working in the Mainland.

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by David Moser

Pay downloads vs. VeryCD

The VeryCD Mp3! action plan.

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Music and movie pirates: if you can’t lick ’em…

Ellen Sander writes about movie piracy for Women of China magazine.

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