Washington D.C. is "upset" with China for counterfeiting & piracy issues?

"...counterfeiting and piracy remain at unacceptably high levels and
continue to cause serious harm to U.S. businesses across many sectors of
the economy,” 
Source: The Hill, 26 January, 2013

Does ANYONE is D.C. have a clue? Have they all become completely brainwashed by the so-called copyright enforcement industry "spin" on reality? Do they genuinely believe that the average Chinese on the street gives a %&$# for the financial impact of their actions on multi-billion dollar U.S businesses? 

Is it possible the root of the issue is that the powerful lobbyists for the video, music, & software industries are driving this attitude? Gee... You think?

I think we can all recognize that China has a completely different perspective on many accepted Western business concepts. Expecting the Chinese government (&/or people) to play the game by our rules is completely ego-centric & consistently doomed to failure.


For example: The current "developed countries" generation has been bombarded by the music, video, & software industries with "anti-piracy educational" materials nearly since birth. Industry agenda copyright education programs have been pushed on the young population for approximately 19 years. Bottom line impact? Zero... Scare tactics simply do not work. (But they're really great for generating all that free anti piracy publicity...)


If we want to reduce the breadth & depth of counterfeiting & copyright piracy - around the globe - we will only do so when we can present a viable alternative to "getting toys for free." And the problem isn't merely China. It's the entire structure of intellectual property marketing that is so antiquated. We "want" the world to buy our products, yet.we continue to price the products according to our own narrow profit expectations rather than the ability of the consumer to actually pay.


We, the developed nations of the planet, have completely forgotten how to price for sales. We continue to blindly push pricing for maximum profits instead of local potential. Guess what? If the majority of your prospects or customers cannot afford to legally purchase your products, the end result is rampant counterfeiting & piracy.


If you genuinely want to reduce music/video/software piracy &/or counterfeiting, find ways to demonstrate the business (or personal) value of the genuine products. As long as we continue to shape the message in terms of its impact on massive multinational western corporations, & not on the value driven to the individual, we will not "get through."


Hey, China... Here's a thought: you can download & use OpenOffice for free & it works just like that over-priced so-called world standard business productivity software. THAT will reduce at least one serious piracy issue.

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