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08-01-2007, 12:29 AM
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Ten days ago, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released in English. Strangley enough, ten days before that, it was released in China in full. However, if you live in China, don't get excited; while it may share the same name, there are by far different authors.
This isn't the first case of something like this happening. Several other fake Harry Potter novels have made it big over there, including "Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Relative Prince," "Harry Potter and the Hiking Dragon," "Harry Potter and the Chinese Empire," "Harry Potter and the Young Heroes," "Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Harry Potter," "Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-up-to-Dragon," "Harry Potter and the Big Funnel," "Harry Potter and the Golden Armor," "Harry Potter and the Crystal Vase," and on and on.
Wei Bin is the editor of the Writers' Publishing House, which investigates book piracy. In his group's last survey in 2001, he discovered that as many as 30 to 40 percent of the books on sale in China may be pirated.
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"The focus of the government is not to fight against piracy," Wei said. "It seems they fight harder for banned publications, like pornography, political books, such as things written about the leadership, the government, and historical matters like the Cultural Revolution, the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
"They maintain tight control over such things, but as literary books, such as the ones we identify as being pirated, when we report the matter to the relevant authorities, they settle matters by leaving them unsettled."
However, instead of getting better, it appears that as of now, piracy of Deathly Hallows in China is only getting worse.
You can read more on the story here.
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08-01-2007, 12:34 AM
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Oh dear! That's no good! Stop that right now people! You must stop! I mean, what kinda name is Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Harry Potter, anyway? Some people are crazy!
Edit: 1st to post again! Yay for me checking the news posts 50 bjillion times in a row!
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08-01-2007, 12:35 AM
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08-01-2007, 12:39 AM
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08-01-2007, 12:46 AM
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That's awful. Leave it to the world to figure out how to ruin yet another good thing!
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08-01-2007, 12:50 AM
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I just hate people who do those kinds of things.
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08-01-2007, 12:52 AM
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That's awful!
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08-01-2007, 01:11 AM
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OMG.I don't know why some people can't be patient.
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08-01-2007, 01:11 AM
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That totally awful!!
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08-01-2007, 01:15 AM
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Lmao, I wanna read "Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Harry Potter" and "Harry Potter and the Big Funnel", they sound amusingly pathetic... I mean, no... This is bad, *pokes the pirates* Don't do this! I mean, it's fan fiction... It's not made to be published, it's for fun.
Least they're not translating the real DH and selling it, etc... That would make it a pain when the official copies come out.
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08-01-2007, 01:26 AM
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That's horrible! They really should stop it anyday now.
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That's horrible!!
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08-01-2007, 03:00 AM
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thats strange and horrible
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08-01-2007, 03:36 AM
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08-01-2007, 03:45 AM
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Oh no! Thats dreadful!
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08-01-2007, 03:52 AM
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Hmm....strange......
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08-01-2007, 03:59 AM
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China has horrible piracy - they sell pirated things on the street and have no problems, no arrests or charges or anything.
They really need to fix that... especially with the best book series ever!  I mean, seriously, Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Harry? How'd that happen? 0.o
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Least they're not translating the real DH and selling it, etc... That would make it a pain when the official copies come out.
Yeah, it's a surprise they haven't bothered to try that yet, but that'd be much worse if they did start doing that.
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"Harry Potter and the Hiking Dragon"  what is that anyway?! lol that's strange, but funny
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08-01-2007, 04:05 AM
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hmm, that's interesting. I wouldn't mind reading them, they're just like fanfiction but in a whole new step. Probably shouldn't sell them though..
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08-01-2007, 04:50 AM
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08-01-2007, 06:22 AM
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08-01-2007, 08:42 AM
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ha! there goes anything! its China! what do you expect? what i feel bad about that is that, the government itself isnt doin anything, they just let it happen.... | |
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08-01-2007, 08:58 AM
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almost everything in china is pirated, even water btw. why isn't anyone taking action?
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08-01-2007, 10:36 AM
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Cant believe these jerks...!
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08-01-2007, 11:43 AM
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Thats horrible, but im not suprised, it's China!!!!
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