| Lingyis said: i should add that, in fact, when i asked my relatives in china, none of them knew where to even buy non-pirated CDs. i went to a pretty big all electronics mall in shanghai two months ago, nintendo didn't have a store there. |
This I find very funny: There is a district in Shenzhen called Dong Men (Eastern Gate) that has a few DVD shops. Very few are 100% legit. Police know this, but do not move a finger. DVDs are dirt-cheap (1USD). Original DVDs by comparison cost around 3-4USD. But what is amazing is frequently the pirated DVDs are packaged much better than the originals!
I have inadvertently picked up a few fakes like Monk: Seasons 1-3, but I swear until you open the package (which was in a hard box with gold-paint embossed printing (expensive) you cannot tell. Even the DVDs themseves were printed in high quality CMYK. What gave it away was a typo - "Obsessive. Cocmpulsive. Detective." that I didn't notice before.
(In case you guys are wondering, I normally buy my DVDs original here in Hong Kong at a special second hand DVD mall - and they guarantee the movies against defects so it's not a bad deal - all I'm interested in is the content. If you are caught bringing movies from China into Hong Kong you get fined pretty heavily, not to mention the possibility of doing jail time, depending on the number of pirated movies you are carrying - not worth the hassle for a married man with children!)
