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China's uphill piracy battle

FROM VARIETY: Official seeks more muscle

By Clifford Coonan of Variety -- Video Business, 1/22/2008

JAN. 22 | FROM VARIETY: A leading Chinese IPR official has admitted that China is struggling to control online piracy and has called for more muscle and tougher punishments.

Yan Xiaohong, VP of the National Copyright Administration, told a news conference that "following the rapid development of Internet technology, online piracy cases have proliferated, and the fight is far from over."

Yan described the problem in China as "very severe" and called for stiffer fines and sentences.

Online piracy is a major challenge for the industry given the growing importance of the market here. China had 210 million Internet users at the end of 2007, second only to the U.S., and looks set to overtake the U.S. this year.

Read the full story on Variety.com.

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