They finally wise up to where the REAL volume piracy is??

Maybe not as easy as going after downloaders Stateside,
but infinity more logical. The Orient sees theft as normal
business practice, as many companies who have tried to do
business there have discovered.
-Rich

U.S. seeks WTO crackdown on China piracy

American tech business groups are hoping the World Trade Organization
will prompt a crackdown on intellectual-property piracy in China.

The United States Wednesday asked the WTO to demand proof from Beijing
that it is taking active steps to snuff out the illegal copying of
foreign-made software, movies and other such products.

"China has enacted a number of laws to protect intellectual property,
including a law to protect semiconductor layout designs,"
Semiconductor Industry Association President George Scalise said in a
news release. "Enforcement of IP protection laws has been widely
recognized as falling short of what is needed to deter violations."

The Los Angeles Times said the losses to American, Japanese and
European companies attributed to piracy in China totaled about $60
billion in 2003 alone.

China is expected to respond to the WTO request in about three months.
If the response is deemed to be lacking, the organization could
eventually seek economic sanctions.

Copyright 2005 by United Press International




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Rich

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:18:47 -0400, Rich <> Gave us:

>Maybe not as easy as going after downloaders Stateside,
>but infinity more logical. The Orient sees theft as normal
>business practice, as many companies who have tried to do
>business there have discovered.
>-Rich
>

No, they have always known. They are just now waking up to the
impact that it is having.

I simply call 'em what they are. Thieving bastards.

NunYa Bidness wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:18:47 -0400, Rich <> Gave us:
>
>
>>Maybe not as easy as going after downloaders Stateside,
>>but infinity more logical. The Orient sees theft as normal
>>business practice, as many companies who have tried to do
>>business there have discovered.
>>-Rich
>>
>
>
> No, they have always known. They are just now waking up to the
> impact that it is having.
>
> I simply call 'em what they are. Thieving bastards.


Economic sanctions against china? who the hell are they trying to kid?

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:18:47 -0400, Rich <> wrote:

>The Orient sees theft as normal
>business practice,

As opposed to American oil companies, which use any excuse to jack up
prices and gouge consumers, even though they have been making record
profits.

The entire world sees theft as a normal business practice...It's just
called different things depending on whether you are doing the
thieving or on the receiving end.

On 10/30/2005 11:33:29 AM, Mark Spatny wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:18:47 -0400, Rich <> wrote:
>
>> The Orient sees theft as normal business practice,
>
> As opposed to American oil companies, which use any excuse to jack up
> prices and gouge consumers, even though they have been making record
> profits.
>
> The entire world sees theft as a normal business practice...It's just
> called different things depending on whether you are doing the
> thieving or on the receiving end.

It's not theft to raise your prices to meet demand. It's called
capitalism. There is no law that says you're only allowed to make a
certain amount of profit.
--
"I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody. Mmm."

Now playing: the radio.

"Tarkus" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On 10/30/2005 11:33:29 AM, Mark Spatny wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:18:47 -0400, Rich <> wrote:
>>
>>> The Orient sees theft as normal business practice,
>>
>> As opposed to American oil companies, which use any excuse to jack up
>> prices and gouge consumers, even though they have been making record
>> profits.
>>
>> The entire world sees theft as a normal business practice...It's just
>> called different things depending on whether you are doing the
>> thieving or on the receiving end.
>
> It's not theft to raise your prices to meet demand. It's called
> capitalism. There is no law that says you're only allowed to make a
> certain amount of profit.
> --
> "I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody. Mmm."
>
> Now playing: the radio.

Actually, I think there are some sort of laws to that effect.

I recall reading on Snopes.com about a gas-station that raised it's prices
to ridiculous levels (something like $10 a litre) around the time of the New
Orleans floods, but were quickly ordered by the FCC to lower them back to
reasonable levels.
Not exactly sure what the technicalities of it are, but there are laws like
that.

Why would the FCC be involved? We're they illegally
broadcasting inflated prices????

The Man With No Name wrote:
> "Tarkus" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > On 10/30/2005 11:33:29 AM, Mark Spatny wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:18:47 -0400, Rich <> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Orient sees theft as normal business practice,
> >>
> >> As opposed to American oil companies, which use any excuse to jack up
> >> prices and gouge consumers, even though they have been making record
> >> profits.
> >>
> >> The entire world sees theft as a normal business practice...It's just
> >> called different things depending on whether you are doing the
> >> thieving or on the receiving end.
> >
> > It's not theft to raise your prices to meet demand. It's called
> > capitalism. There is no law that says you're only allowed to make a
> > certain amount of profit.
> > --
> > "I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody. Mmm."
> >
> > Now playing: the radio.
>
> Actually, I think there are some sort of laws to that effect.
>
> I recall reading on Snopes.com about a gas-station that raised it's prices
> to ridiculous levels (something like $10 a litre) around the time of the New
> Orleans floods, but were quickly ordered by the FCC to lower them back to
> reasonable levels.
> Not exactly sure what the technicalities of it are, but there are laws like
> that.

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:33:29 GMT, Mark Spatny
<> Gave us:

>
>On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:18:47 -0400, Rich <> wrote:
>
>>The Orient sees theft as normal
>>business practice,
>
>As opposed to American oil companies, which use any excuse to jack up
>prices and gouge consumers, even though they have been making record
>profits.
>
>The entire world sees theft as a normal business practice...It's just
>called different things depending on whether you are doing the
>thieving or on the receiving end.


Actually not. What the Chinese are doing is outright, blatant theft.
If you cannot see the difference, you are lost as an American.

The petrol companies need to get spanked in the same way Roosevelt
spanked Boeing during the second world war, when they were gouging.

There are a LOT of companies today that need such spankings.

I am in San Diego. I want half my ****ing electrical bills paid back
to me for the last nine years. The bastards are thieves, and were
proven as such yet not one has been indicted yet (actually I think
they are just starting to).

At the onset of the PGW OPEC oil was $35 a barrel. By day two of
the war, it dropped to 16$ a barrel and stayed that way for nearly a
decade, yet we got our gas jacked up from $0.67 a gallon to over
double that. What the ****? It never did go down, and we have been
getting screwed ever since, AND the mother ****ers in power know all
about it. It shouldn't be any more than $1.00 a gallon right now, and
it should stay that way for the next ten years. Let those bastards
take it the way they gave it for a decade and see how their retarded
asses like it.

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:07:07 -0800, Tarkus <> Gave
us:

>It's not theft to raise your prices to meet demand. It's called
>capitalism. There is no law that says you're only allowed to make a
>certain amount of profit.

No, but there will soon be laws that revolve around the practice of
consumer gouging. Which is what they were doing, and supply and
demand had nothing to do with it.

If I sell a painting, I would be in the boat you created. Selling
commodities is a bit different, and should be ****ing controlled.

You should listen to the album again. You missed something that was
in there. One of my favorites, btw.

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:59:10 +1100, "The Man With No Name"
<> Gave us:

>
>"Tarkus" <> wrote in message
>news:...
>> On 10/30/2005 11:33:29 AM, Mark Spatny wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:18:47 -0400, Rich <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Orient sees theft as normal business practice,
>>>
>>> As opposed to American oil companies, which use any excuse to jack up
>>> prices and gouge consumers, even though they have been making record
>>> profits.
>>>
>>> The entire world sees theft as a normal business practice...It's just
>>> called different things depending on whether you are doing the
>>> thieving or on the receiving end.
>>
>> It's not theft to raise your prices to meet demand. It's called
>> capitalism. There is no law that says you're only allowed to make a
>> certain amount of profit.
>> --
>> "I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody. Mmm."
>>
>> Now playing: the radio.
>
> Actually, I think there are some sort of laws to that effect.
>
> I recall reading on Snopes.com about a gas-station that raised it's prices
>to ridiculous levels (something like $10 a litre) around the time of the New
>Orleans floods, but were quickly ordered by the FCC to lower them back to
>reasonable levels.
> Not exactly sure what the technicalities of it are, but there are laws like
>that.
>

That would be the FTC. The FCC has nothing to do with gasoline, or
those that sell it.