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Fake Destruction
On Saturday, various cities across China held public displays of "destroying illegal publications and pornography" and "destroying illegal audio and video products".
Liuzhou's contribution was to destroy 250,000 books and over 60,000 CDs and DVDs.
They do this from time to time. Of course, the CD and DVD shops continue just as normal as do the booksellers. Even the government owned Xinhua bookstore sells CDs which European and American artistes don't even know they recorded!
I was once in my favourite DVD store and noticed a few cops. A friend rang me to say that the police were holding a fake DVD burning ceremony near his home. I was getting a little concerned for my store, but needn't have worried. The cops in the DVD store were just after pirate copies of "Sex and the City".
It's not only the DVDs which are fake. So is the destruction.
Man! Moving with the (Liuzhou) wife back to the home town from Zhuhai,
Guangdong this December. HATE to hear that this kind of stuff is going on!
;) I dunno what I'd do without my first run copy of Sopranos and CSI! I'll
PM ya for "back door" stores, I guess! ;)
These displays make for a couple of headlines back here, but I suspect
nothing is really changing. Last summer while in Luizhou, we accompanied my
sister-in-law to a 'software' shop where she purchased Windows XP and
Office 2003 for the whopping price of 10RMB. However, my wife did get a
real copy of Powerword 2006 at Xinhua bookstore.
There was a picture almost exactly like this in the Nanjing newspaper, but
instead of a backhoe it was a steamroller. Lets flatten these DVDs even
more, Mwahahahhaha