Comments on: Hollywood Going After Chinese Torrent Sites? Oh, The Droll Naivite! http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/17/hollywood-going-after-chinese-torrent-sites-oh-the-droll-naivite/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:10:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Gaz http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/17/hollywood-going-after-chinese-torrent-sites-oh-the-droll-naivite/comment-page-1/#comment-140076 Gaz Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:49:05 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/17/hollywood-going-after-chinese-torrent-sites-oh-the-droll-naivite/#comment-140076 I've been living in China now for 4 years, I myself use xunlei, its great (as long as you have a good virus scanner and firewall because its full of security problems as is most software that Chinese had any part in developing or cracking). Go to www.gougou.com and search for any movie you want, guarantee its there for download. Even if Hollywood could stop piracy in China, which it most definitely cannot, the only thing that would achieve is that Chinese people's minds would be even more closed than they already are, because relying only on official channels one can only see about 20 foreign movies a year in China, and they are only ones that make the west look evil. Most (mainland) Chinese (I'm not talking about overseas Chinese in Canada) don't pay for things that are not physical, they don't understand the logic behind it, they can't comprehend paying for an 'idea' only paying for physical manifestation of that idea, so for a dvd, so paying more than the cost of physically producing and distributing a dvd (~$0.40) is senseless and downright stupid to them. I’ve been living in China now for 4 years, I myself use xunlei, its great (as long as you have a good virus scanner and firewall because its full of security problems as is most software that Chinese had any part in developing or cracking).

Go to http://www.gougou.com and search for any movie you want, guarantee its there for download.

Even if Hollywood could stop piracy in China, which it most definitely cannot, the only thing that would achieve is that Chinese people’s minds would be even more closed than they already are, because relying only on official channels one can only see about 20 foreign movies a year in China, and they are only ones that make the west look evil.

Most (mainland) Chinese (I’m not talking about overseas Chinese in Canada) don’t pay for things that are not physical, they don’t understand the logic behind it, they can’t comprehend paying for an ‘idea’ only paying for physical manifestation of that idea, so for a dvd, so paying more than the cost of physically producing and distributing a dvd (~$0.40) is senseless and downright stupid to them.

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