Chinese government hates mobile phones, but keeps enabling copyright criminals

In something of a paradox, China’s State Council Information Office admitted yesterday that mobile phones were hindering the government’s efforts to put the kibosh on anything deemed inappropriate. The communist nation is notorious for censoring any and all information from coming into or leaving the Red borders. Recently, however, the prevalence of the internet and mobile phones is making it harder and harder to keep information locked-down. For example, recent news reports cited widespread slavery being practiced in China - leaked through channels that the government cannot control.

So, here’s the paradox. Why does the government not do something about copyright infringment? There seems to be an incredible volume of rips, clones, knock-off, whatever you want to call them, coming out of China - and the government seems to be enabling these criminals by turning a blind eye to the situation. Listen China, if you crack down on copyright laws, then you will have less mobile phones. Less mobile phones means less information to have to keep a leash on. Less information to control means you can keep your slaves toiling away in coal mines and serving you dim sum (don’t misunderstand, we absolutely love dim sum). And, a stricter copyright enforcement stance would make us bloggers a lot happier - we really do get offended by the mobile phone rips coming out of your factories.[Via: The Raw Feed]