Hong Kong passed new copyright laws

[sadalius]

Hong Kong just recenlty passed these bills into law. I didn't know where to put this because it affects all game consoles across the board because a good number of modchips come from Hong Kong. This new law is so tough that even teachers who make copies of worksheets to hand out to students could be in violation of copyright infringement.

Have a read for yourself, page 11 is the most interesting though.

http://www.ipd.gov.hk/eng/copyright/booklet.pdf

[CoFree]

n. korea
here they come
there is to much money in all this for it to stop.they will find a place that will let them do it.

[freedog]

i got to say, THAT SUCKS!!!! page 11 does pretty much lay it out there for ya. i guess the stiffness of the penalty will determine if they're still willing to try and profit from that market. either way it sounds like this could certainly cause some problems. i do however agree with cofree they will find a basis of operation, but look what happens when you buy toys from china.

[sadalius]

Yeah, thats what they will do . Keep bouncing around from place to place till eventually, they run out of safe havens. Just look at what happened to supreme factory. They got raided by the hong kong police and everything they had mod wise was confiscated and their assets frozen. All that and still, supreme factory is distributing like nothing ever happened. How? They have divisions in France and a couple other countries. If Lik Sang had done something like this, they would probably still be in business. But like I said, it will keep on till there won't be anymore safe places to hide.

[CoFree]

well as bad as this sounds it could be worse.if there is not a criminal element in this then i don't see it doing much.
it will be up to the person or group that thinks there stuff is being riped off to do all the leg work and to take action against the so call pirate.
the civil liability is the loop hole in this.


Examples of the sorts of activities that would attract
civil liability:
• a person selling computer source code which enables others
to download songs that have been encrypted
• a person offering a service to modify game consoles or
selling mod chips for insertion into digital game machines so
as to enable others to play pirated computer games
( whether the service or sale is for profit or not )
• a person making a device designed to allow unauthorized
copying of digitally-protected online movies



i see this as a kiss up to the u.s.a.
i dont think china will do one thing to back this up.
They will just say.if you think this is going on then sue then and the court will work it out.
Just how much money is it worth spending in china to try to get it stopped.