China won't play Games with pirates

FROM VARIETY: Bootleg DVD offenders to walk Olympic plank

By Clifford Coonan of Variety -- Video Business, 7/15/2008

JULY 15 | FROM VARIETY: Olympic visitors coming to Beijing hoping to pick up a pirated copy of Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda or runaway B.O. fave Red Cliff should be prepared to go home disappointed; Chinese authorities have clamped down on counterfeit DVD sellers in the run-up to the Beijing Games.

In Beijing, officials will be on call 24 hours a day to catch pirate sellers, according to a report in the China Press and Publishing Journal. Normally, checks are made during office hours, and the shops and stalls and street vendors do a brisk trade in the evening.

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