Pirated copies of Windows 7 on sale in China
October 23rd, 2009 by James
Microsoft’s Windows 7 went on sale in Japan yesterday. When Fuji TV filed a report about the product launch, they felt the need to inform everyone of the shocking fact that pirated copies of Windows 7 have been on sale for some time in China.
Even as this post was being written, their morning news shows were also announcing the sale of pirated copies of the OS in China as if it was as newsworthy as the product launch itself..
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In other news, some of my Chinese relatives already switched to Linux.
sohow i am feeling that Microsoft just deserve this..
I know it’s popular to hate large companies but what do you base this on?
me hate big companies? why?
Yes, it’s just oh sooooo funny when a country with HUGE worldwide assets condones IP theft. Hoooboy, I just can’t stop laughing – NOT.
It’s too bad that China creates NOTHING original (well nothing original that doesn’t contain lead that is) – otherwise it’d be fun to steal their crap and see what their response was.
too bad windows sucks.
If you have problems with your window sucking you should just close it, it’s probably too windy outside.
I am always amaze at the news that comes out of Japan. It sometimes makes me laugh. Of course they are selling pirated copies of win7 already so is Mexico and India and Russia. I am wondering why they were left out. Just kidding. My 2Cs. Have to love Japanese news.
Partially because Japan is less likely to buy their pirated Windows 7 from Mexico or India because of proximity, and partially because pirated Windows 7 from Mexico or India is less likely to transmit your sensitive data to Beijing.
Wow, it’s the CIA again!
You have a lot of free time on your hands don’t you. Is it because of the market collapse?
I am always amaze at the news that comes out of Japan. It sometimes makes me laugh. Of course they are selling pirated copies of win7 already so is Mexico and India and Russia. I am wondering why they were left out.
I don’t know how much you are serious. Do you really want reasons? Do you just feel unpleasant on this news?
Just think few facts:
1. The amount of trade
2. Market scale
3. Costs spent for collecting news materials
4. Japanese place names registered as trademarks in China
5. Funny Chinese fake brands
http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/05/fake-chinese-brands.html
http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-chinese-fake-brands.html
http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2007/11/chinese-fake-brands.html
6. and so on…
Google search result gives about 120,000 hits for “Chinese fake brands” while none for Russian, Mexican, and Indian. It happened as expected. Most people aren’t serious on it, but some may expect something from, e.g., Microsoft or the U.S. government.
You are probably watching just a very small part of the news broadcasted in Japan, the most laughable one selected by James. I hadn’t yet seen a clip taken from more serious news programs broadcasted at late night or by NHK.
Even as this post was being written, their morning news shows were also announcing the sale of pirated copies of the OS in China as if it was as newsworthy as the product launch itself..
Noh~ You want to see the battle japanese vs chinese here?ww
Anyway, I am curious about the reaction of the USA regarding of this matter whether they can blame china as same as blaming Japan even though they owe a lot of money to China now.
China is US biggest commercial partner and market, microsoft will happily ignore any piracy if there’s even a slight chance of penetrating into china’s market.
yeah, and it comes as a inconvenient truth that China is big enough to scare away any BSA, MPAA, RIAA, IMF, WB, intellectual property storm lawyer or even any military power you might throw off at them.
another inconvenient truth is that China has a huge $$ reserve: attack China, try to export democracy into china, don’t buy chinese crap from china, do any of the above and your currency is doomed along with your economy and your country.
Bleh.
I do understand that business and diplomcy is not cosmetic and futile disputes with China is not necessity. However, the USA has encouraged the global standard as the strongest leader in the world. If the US media shut up their own mouth regarding of this matter its they admit that their justice depended on gun & money power isnt it?
Also, what I find incredible is that the coverage of US media about Japan is mostly very poor and unfair despite Japan has struggled to follow the US standard & diplomatic tactics, buy a lot of US bond, pay a lot for patent royalties, put $100 billion into IMF, pay more than $ 20 billion a year for USFJ, refueling mission in the Indian sea, pay half of salary for Afugan police officers, and more. Thus most of Americans knowledge about JP is still ninjya, fujiyama and sushi level or evil & crazy JP wives!
I just want to say loudly to Americans!! “You should aware who is the most subservient and the best stooge for the USA in the east Asia!! Dont bully Japan too much!!” WWWWWW
Agreed. Japan needs to stop meekly following the US. There is little to no appreciation on part of the US, just take, take, take, and take, absolutely no giving back. The US is taking its friendship with Japan and other countries like England for granted. Japan needs to reassert itself both strategically and economically and tell the US to fuck off if its proposal is totally one sided. While admittedly the US has helped Japan in the past, not so much anymore.
I just tried to say “love me tender!” to them. www
Ah, yet another news report on one of China’s pirating fiascos. That Fuji train is never late.
It’s sad to see that no matter how much China and Japan try to better diplomatic relations, how many “cultural exchange programs” exist or how many students travel between the two countries, no matter how much Hatoyama talks about yu-ai or Hu Jintao about the importance of Sino-Japanese harmony, all it takes it one well-positioned news report to f–k things up.
No wonder why the citizens of Japan and China feel so ambivalently toward each other…they’re receiving mixed messages from the media. In the end, it’s just a vicious cycle of reconciliation, repair, then the fear-mongering of the vocal feeding mutual mistrust.
Agree and disagree. While it may be displeasing to Chinese that the Japanese media is reporting piracy in China, this issue is very much alive. The legal system in China for intellectual property protection is ambivalent at best. If China wants to be a global leader keen on stable biz partnerships, this is the first step to go. This news is probably striking to Japanese especially mainly because their economy is based on innovation and invention, not so much resource and cheap manufacturing. If there is little to no protection through patents and copyright in the world’s largest market, what is to stop them from eating up Japan’s (and the rest of the tech savvy nations’) main competitive edge. On the other hand, if the Japanese media is maliciously seeking to make China look bad (which it probably did anyways) then that is of bad faith. Even so, the news deserves some sort of coverage.
This news is probably striking to Japanese especially mainly because their economy is based on innovation and invention, not so much resource and cheap manufacturing.
You probably meant to say “their economy is based on innovation and invention of manufacturing systems that manufacture items that were invented and/or discovered elsewhere, very much using labor compensation that is strikingly low when viewed against Japan’s GDP.”
well, the general perception is that Japan never invented anything, which is for the most part true, but looking at their production methods as well as operations systems, the backstage elements are the real money maker. The concept of tech may be invented somewhere else but the one who harnesses the efficiency to produce them quickly and with a reasonable standard of quality is the one which wins.
“their economy is based on innovation and invention of manufacturing systems that manufacture items that were invented and/or discovered elsewhere, very much using labor compensation that is strikingly low when viewed against Japan’s GDP.”
It’s also wrong…
Mai furendo bought Chinese visa in such way and after some time Microsoft shut down that computer (it was Mac running Vista). All data and everything gone and headache for me as I had to reinstall it all with proper version.
Somehow I’m not surprised. At all. With Win7 Home Premium going for 200 USD and Ultimate going for 320 USD, well, as much as I hate Vista I’d rather just switch to Ubuntu (and did) than fork out that kind of money. I’ll get Windows 7 when I buy a laptop that comes with it.