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[SpamCop-List] Re: The chinese own spam

Frog Prince me at privacy.net
Sun May 2 10:43:50 EDT 2004


"Marjolein Katsma"
|
| > I paid attention.  That's how I got to witness it.  On our last
| > trip to China, a guy from Microsoft happened to be part of the tour
| > group.  He was purchasing bootlegged MS software everywhere he
| > could find it to take back to the company with notes of where
| > purchased, etc.  He had no trouble collecting tons of the stuff
| > from street vendors and in shops everywhere we went.
|
| And? Like I said, you can do that on many other countries. There's
| nothing "Chinese" about it.
|
| > You refuse to pay attention.
|
| I'm paying attention to what you say. I'm also paying attention when I
| travel, and I observed that bootlegging is in NO WAY "Chinese".
|

I think the point is that the practice is much more prevalent in China and
appears to have official sanction.




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