Serious About IP

This ought to tell you something.

More than 1,500 large Chinese enterprises have installed copyrighted software since April 2006, said Liu Binjie, director of the General Administration of Press, here on Monday.

In April 2006, the National Copyright Administration and seven other ministries issued a joint notice urging Chinese companies to use copyrighted software.

Central and provincial governments have investigated 3,600 enterprises. More than 1,100 companies have faced penalties for using pirated software, Liu told a conference on software copyright issues.

Vice Premier Wu Yi, also leader of a national working group for intellectual property protection, said in a congratulatory letter to the conference that software industry was a "basic and strategic sector" of the national economic development.

In the last year and a half 1,500 large Chinese companies have installed non-pirated software? Are you kidding me? What about the other 300 million that haven't? I think that congratulatory letter is a bit premature.