Plunder Goes High Tech

摘要

Unlike the pirates of old who plundered the ports and merchant vessels of the South China Sea, today's Chinese pirates are landlubbers all, operating from 30 high-tech factories that replicate optical discs. So it was fortuitous that Microsoft summoned the authorities quickly to a plant near Guilin in Guanxi Province, where investigators found 5,700 bootleg Windows CDs. The plant's four production lines-three working around the clock-could churn out 20,000 discs a day.