According to China Report of Intellectual Property of Sept. 17, 2008, a 800 million yuan (approx $117M) software piracy case is being heard in Shenzhen (Guangdong)'s Futian District People's Court.
Interestingly, this case is one of the largest criminal activities uncovered under a China-US joint operation against software piracy.
According to a Shenzhen prosecutor,when investigating a piracy gang in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sought help from the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) because it found several Shenzhen residents suspected of manufacturing and distributing pirated software in October 2006.
Later on, a Chinese-led operation resulted in the arrestation of 14 suspects, attack at 6 locations for manufacturing, packaging and distributing disks as well as seizure of 22 matrices.
Guangdong and Shenzhen police discovered 860 million yuan proceeds including pirated software, counterfeit tags of genuine products, forged licensing documents and matrices.
Remarks: This case shows that some cooperation is achieved between both countries however, around 1 billion dollars is lost by US companies every year due to piracy in China. Some good ressources can be found on the topic on the StopFakes.gov website.
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Cooperation is not always the case between those two countries unfortunatelly
Still these things are not controlled in the way it should be. According to Xinhua, business will be a topic to a campaign by the authorities to avoid them from using unlawful application. Now strict action is going to be taken to control all these piracy.
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