software piracy

CHINA'S FIGHT AGAINST SOFTWARE PIRACY.
China takes a lot of heat for its intellectual-property laws---or lack thereof. Software companies are constantly beating up on Chinese officials, or trying to get our politicans to beat up on them, about the rampant software piracy that goes on in China, and other companies are afraid to do business there for fear of losing control of patents or trademarks or other types of IP, which is also a not-inconsiderable factor holding back China's emergence as a force in global outsourcing. But China is trying to do something about it. China recently passed new laws about uploading or downloading copyrighted content to or from the Internet ("China Passes Internet Piracy Law). And judging from the heated litigation and debate going on in the United States, our own country doesn't necessarily have all the wrinkles worked out when it comes to intellectual property and the Internet. So let's give China a break and let them work out their own set of rules. Who knows, they might come up with some ideas better than what we're struggling with