Prior to president Hu's visit to the US a short time ago there was plenty of words being written about China's software piracy and the attention or lack of that it paid to it.
Lenovo made a big deal by agreeing to buy MS software and put it in ALL of its PCs. There was an immediate decline in the amount of software that was pirated in their pcs.
But now, China is getting it from the other side.
EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson is calling on China to "commit to openness" and take the piracy issues more seriously.
Uh, was China not serious before?
The UK has about a 27 percent piracy rate and the world average is 35 percent. China's piracy rate peaked at 90 percent.
This is not new news for China.
Mandelson chose students at Beijing's Renmin University to make his statement that China is likely to face a 'backlash in Europe unless it did more about piracy.
The translator said "this guy is mad at us, too."
It is interesting to me that students are often the medium for statements where someone hopes change can be affected. It is no different in China.
In any event, if China wants the products that it creates to not be pirated China will have to learn sooner or later to not pirate others, no?
What do you think?
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