AGAINST PIRACY

摘要

When Chinese law enforcement authorities in July rounded up members of two criminal organizations allegedly responsible for $500 million in counterfeit software, it was hailed by the FBI and software vendors as a considerable blow to high quality Chinese counterfeiters. The 25 arrests, which included Ma Kei Pei - indicted in the U.S. in 2003 before fleeing to China for allegedly creating fake Microsoft programs -represent the first results of an increased anti-piracy partnership between U.S. and Chinese authorities. Such a working relationship is no small matter when dealing with a country long regarded as the world's prime source of illegally copied goods, but now widely regarded as trying to whitewash its image before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.