Re: Big Companies, Big Business, Asia And Copyright... How Do They Do It?

[Ext User(Damian)]

"intime" <have@fun.com> wrote in message
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> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> John <sittinginthepool@internode.on.net> wrote
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>>> How do big companies like Sony and Microsoft survive in places
>>> like Asian countries where there is little to no copyright law, and it
>>> is never enforced or even thought of by the government of the day.
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>> They rake it in other countrys.
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> thats for sure
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>>> All in all I find this interesting and would love to know why
>>> some countries are allowed carte blanche as far as this goes.
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>> Basically they arent worth bothering with.
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> 4 the moment
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> it has been tough for Microsoft with the enormous amount of piracy
> involved.
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and that hasnt stopped Bill Gates from becomin richest bloke on the planet,
and Microsoft is doin fine regardless of enormous amount of piracy, 'cos
indirectly that helps to spread Microsoft products and their mission to
monopolise the software industry and so and so.