When I was looking at the Shanghai Daily Archives, I stumbled upon this article called Fight Against IPR Piracy. Since it had to do with piracy, I thought sure why not use it as my current conflict article since it was so interesting!
“Workers across the country burned, shredded or crushed 30 million pirated discs and 11 million illegally published books and magazines”(XinHua IPR Piracy).This article talks about how the authorities would collect pirated materials and they would bring it to a place to burn it. This really reminds me of the last day of school where my friend and I decided to burn our binders and textbooks because they were no use to us anymore. We did that because we hated homework and workbooks! This relates to the article because the authorities were probably really mad when they saw all of the pirated goods and decided to shred and even burn them in public parks! This is also a stupid idea because many people go to the park for peace and harmony, and imagine if you wanted to have a nice and relaxing time, and all of a sudden you see policemen burning tons of illegal products! That would make me really sad.
I think that the Chinese government is doing the wrong thing by burning the media because burning CDs and books in parks is not thing that should be appropriate for those places. If they wanted to burn something they should bring it to a special facility or something! A more environmental friendly way to do it would be just to use shredders so that everything will be shredded so that it doesn't contribute to global warming and that nothing happens. Even thought they already use shredders, they are not using the shredders on the electronic media, but only on books and magazines that were illegally published. It would be easy to stick a CD inside a shredder!
In conclusion, I think that the Chinese government or people are doing the right thing by reporting stores that sell illegal media and I think that the Chinese government is improving in its piracy fighting because usually when you see a policeman walk past people selling illegal goods, they don't really do anything about! I think that if the government would be like the Singaporean government and fine people thousands of dollars and award the people that report incidents they would be able to stop piracy! They also could even make a reward system which would be like if you reported 10 or more incidents you might be able to have a new car license printed saying you are a VIP!
