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...protecting computer software and pharmaceuticals, the Chinese actually have made some progress. That's why companies like Microsoft and Merck want no part of the WTO complaint. But for the film and music business, the claim that there has been headway is simply a joke. "Competition has never been tougher," Li Haihua tells me as he peddles DVDs of new Hollywood films for 60? apiece on Shanghai's Huaihai Street, just blocks from a big antipiracy billboard. "There are more [sellers] than ever before, and the price has come down." Zhou says he earns less than 13? per disc...
...came from a more pure place," he says. "I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way." In fact, he says when he has to hit a joke in a script, he decides whether to deliver it like Matthew Perry, Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell. "There were two years before The O.C. when I was doing a Vince Vaughn impersonation in everything I did. Luckily, I wasn't good enough that anyone caught...
...basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...
...question is an outgrowth of something healthy in our society: the assumption that there is a diverse audience that is willing to talk about previously taboo social distinctions more openly, frankly and daringly than before. It used to be assumed that people were free to joke about their own kind (with some license for black comedians to talk about how white people dance). Crossing those lines was the province of the occasional "socially conscious artist," like Dick Gregory or Lenny Bruce, who was explicit about his goals: in Bruce's words, to repeat "'niggerniggernigger' until the word [didn't] mean...
...Chen is right. The Chinese actually have made some progress on IP protection over the years - and that's why companies like Microsoft and Merck want no part of the WTO complaint. But for the film and music business, the claim that there has been progress is simply a joke. Ask Zhou, or any of the other street vendors in Shanghai, Beijing or anywhere else in China. "Competition has never been tougher," Li Haihua told me as he did a brisk business selling brand new American-made films for five RMB apiece (the equivalent of about 60 cents) on Huaihai...