I travel to China frequently and I even have an apartment there in midtown Shanghai, Pu Xi.
The Chinese have ripoffs of EVERYTHING. I was suprised to see them selling video cards that claimed to be Radeon and Geforce with "512 MB ram" and such. You can't trust any of that stuff cause there is no warranty and no proof it will work as advertised.
They have every computer part you could imagine - and all of those parts look like higher end products and aren't. They copy any and all software and sell it DIRT CHEAP. This is actually a great place to get software. Try a working copy of Vista for just $2.50 How about OSX Leopard for $1.50?
when I was there last you could buy PS2 games and Xbox games for just $1. PS3 games and 360 games cost around $3.
DVD's naturally are dirt cheap. You can get 10 for $5 and the sad thing is, they are PERFECT QUALITY.
"most 3rd world countries in the world don't care about copyrights"
Well, in India they apparently do, as I've found it hard to *easily* come across fake goods the way flashpoint has. To get the fake stuff, you have to find a guy running a small stall in a dodgy backstreet to get pirated software and knockoff goods.
That said, my cousin did have a "Hatty Davidson" cap :P
Poom: It's not a problem with DRM. You take data from a disc into an .iso or whatever, the data stays the way it was on the disc. What stops you just burning a Blu-Ray recordable and plonking it in your PS3 and playing it are little security bits on the disc which can only be added by special factory pressing facilities. So if you copy the game AND have that security bit on the disc, the PS3 wont know the difference between a legit game and a cheap knock-off. It's how Datel have been putting ActionReplay onto the PS2, GC and so forth. They're not licensed software so it's the only way for them to get it done. Same with SwapMagic for PS2 as well.
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China doesn't care about copyrights? This blows my mind.
also, most 3rd world countries in the world don't care about copyrights...
It's mostly because a person making less than $200 a month can't afford to dish out $24 for a DVD or $14 for a CD, much less $200 for winders
I travel to China frequently and I even have an apartment there in midtown Shanghai, Pu Xi.
The Chinese have ripoffs of EVERYTHING. I was suprised to see them selling video cards that claimed to be Radeon and Geforce with "512 MB ram" and such.
You can't trust any of that stuff cause there is no warranty and no proof it will work as advertised.
They have every computer part you could imagine - and all of those parts look like higher end products and aren't. They copy any and all software and sell it DIRT CHEAP. This is actually a great place to get software. Try a working copy of Vista for just $2.50 How about OSX Leopard for $1.50?
when I was there last you could buy PS2 games and Xbox games for just $1. PS3 games and 360 games cost around $3.
DVD's naturally are dirt cheap. You can get 10 for $5 and the sad thing is, they are PERFECT QUALITY.
I wouldn't be surprised to find ripoffs of your apartment.
Flashpoint... They sell PS3 games too??? Do they work? I mean... they cracked the DRM and such? Wow.
"most 3rd world countries in the world don't care about copyrights"
Well, in India they apparently do, as I've found it hard to *easily* come across fake goods the way flashpoint has. To get the fake stuff, you have to find a guy running a small stall in a dodgy backstreet to get pirated software and knockoff goods.
That said, my cousin did have a "Hatty Davidson" cap :P
@ Backlin
I wouldn't be surprised if he also finds ripoffs of his apartment keys.
@ nosleepidiot, Who honestly buys cd's now days?
Poom: It's not a problem with DRM. You take data from a disc into an .iso or whatever, the data stays the way it was on the disc. What stops you just burning a Blu-Ray recordable and plonking it in your PS3 and playing it are little security bits on the disc which can only be added by special factory pressing facilities. So if you copy the game AND have that security bit on the disc, the PS3 wont know the difference between a legit game and a cheap knock-off.
It's how Datel have been putting ActionReplay onto the PS2, GC and so forth. They're not licensed software so it's the only way for them to get it done. Same with SwapMagic for PS2 as well.