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Stakes up in piracy fight
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June 21, 2005
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An official destroys pirate VCDs and DVDs as part of a Chongqing operation that
saw 500,000 discs destroyed Monday.XINHUA
China is offering rewards of up to 300,000 yuan (HK$281,820) for tips
on illegal video and audio factories to stamp out theft of intellectual
property.
An IP piracy hotline came online as Beijing announced a further round in its
campaign to combat piracy of movies, music and other copyrighted materials, China
Daily reported.
It is not the first time authorities have paid such rewards - but the amounts
have been increasing.
The latest rewards begin at 150,000 yuan for each illegal production line
reported.
Eight government ministries are involved in the latest crackdown.
The government says it shut down 200 illegal CD and DVD production lines from
1994 to last year and paid more than 40 million yuan in rewards to informers
during that time.
"The Chinese government's commitment to protecting intellectual property rights
is very serious,'' the report quoted Liu Binjie, deputy head of the National
Office for Cracking Down on Pornography and Piracy, as saying.
REUTERS
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