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Originally Posted by stumped
"in china for example" ???
& "so long as a country is willing to look the other way while its citizens commit such acts"
are U serious ?
e.g. think you will find that most of these 54 million copies of Game of Thrones were pirated in the USA 
Data from piracy monitoring firm MUSO indicates the show was pirated 54 million times in the first 24 hours
and
Star Wars television show The Mandalorian was uploaded to the internet by pirates within three hours of its launch on Disney+ yesterday.
The debut episode of the show was being circulated on file sharing websites almost immediately after the new streaming platform went live, with most downloads appearing to originate from Spain and the U.K., according to an analysis by Comparitech
try naming a country where stuff is NOT pirated "while the country looks the other way / while its citizens commit such acts"
for English language books, films, music, TV shows the pirates mostly live in the west, and they get rich from the Google etc. adverts on their sites
blaming China is not the answer |
Perhaps the English language shows are pirated by people who live in the west, but the servers tend to be in countries where copyright laws are at best laxly enforced. At one time, the big pirate sites were in Russia, China, India and some small countries in the Caribbean. It's rare to find a pirate site actually hosted in a country like the US. Those sites are too easy to shutdown and the owner sued.
It's not a blame game, it's simple reality. Many parts of the world do not respect copyrights and never have.