“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!

I still think that this idea will not work really well because it costs 22 RMB (2.90USD), which you would be able to buy 3-4 fake DVD's with! I think that at the beginning of this goal, they will raise quite a lot of money, and I think that it will steadily go back down because the Chinese might find it useless to own a real DVD, as even the police don't care! I think that if they really want people to buy their DVD's, they will have to lower the price of the DVD's to about 15 RMB. If it was that low many Chinese families would be able to afford many of them and the entertainment companys' profits would probably go rising high, as if it is cheaper more of the products will be bought. Also in this article, it states t hat the DVD's will be available shortly after the movie is screened in the cinema. This part is not going to work out as many Chinese people are very urgent to watch the video right as it comes out, so they would probably end up buying the fake ones. They would need to release the DVD's in China as it is airing in the USA.

In conclusion, I think that Warner Brothers is taking a very big step forward in China and they are making a good example to the other companies like Paramount pictures. I think that Warner Brothers is going to make a lot of money since the population in China is so big and with the improvements that are probably going to happen, many Chinese people will probably have real DVD's on their DVD shelves soon!

Not only does this mean more money to spend on items necessary for the desired life, but it also decreases the chances of people stealing others credit card numbers. The simplicity of downloading something such as a song, and safety of knowing the chances of getting caught are weak, only strengthen the desire to put Limewire or that Bit Torrent website to some good use. Many feel it is a chance to get back at “the man” (or the music industry) as well, who had been selling music overpriced for far too long.

People may not mind downloading songs by popular artists especially, knowing in good conscious that the artist's shows rack in more money than they need anyways. Some countries have even legalized P2P music downloading, such as Canada, who hopes to compensate losses by taxing Mp3 players.

Due to the vast number of citizens listening to shared music, there has been a public outcry from the people who find piracy unjust and damaging to the economy. As much as the music industry tries, there seems to be no solution to this problem beyond selling music online which rakes in less money than the physical product. Therefore, out of common courtesy and sympathy for the music industry, the American government has thought out a most impressive (and slightly risqué) plan to end this abomination known as piracy and create a lenitive way out for these most uncorrupted organizations.

Instead of taking Canada's petty neutral approach to pirates, the American government has decided it's time to seek justice. With the combined cooperation of Norton Antivirus, MacAfee, and every other antivirus company found, the government will be able to attack from the inside. Considering people download files from unknown locations from other unknown P2P users, the government can implement a file into the network, whether it is in Limewire, Bearshare, Bit Torrent, WinMX, etc. and attach a virus to that specific file, so then the virus is incognito.

The virus will seem insignificant and small; in fact its size will make it near undetectable (being only 50 kilobytes) to even veteran pirates, so that when they choose the file it will seem to be the appropriate size for a decent, unsuspicious download. Thanks to the cooperation of any antivirus software the government knows about, the system will not recognize the virus as a virus at all.

The virus that has been designed by the government has only one main operation and use. Once inside the computer, it will use the system as a temporary bivouac, where it will wait to initiate a countdown of t minus 10 seconds before the user's monitor is destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion. The explosion in turn will cauterize the users face, sending shrapnel consisting of glass and lead straight into the victim's eyes, creating an aneurysm in the blood vessels causing a permanent amaurosis.

Following the event of the explosions, the pirates will then eventually see a pattern to the chain of “accidents” that have been going on worldwide, and protest against the P2P networks that provided them such a terrible (yet rather tepid, considering death toll should be low) attempt to kill them. Thousands of people will solve the issue the only way they know how and sue the creators of these programs, putting all P2P program developers at a disadvantage.

It is then that the American government will make its final strike with the sword of justice, and sentence the terrorists that created these P2P programs to be held in prison. From there the government will place the ghastly death penalty on all of the employees, making sure that they will never again create P2P programs and at the same time giving out a warning to all those who may even think about creating one.

In the end, the plan will probably cost billions of dollars due to certain necessary cover-ups, research, infiltration, etc., but this may save the American based music industry, which is more than Canada can say. The economy, criticizers of P2P downloading, music industry, etc. can then rest easy knowing that the end of modern day piracy could be at hand.