Innovation, Yes, Illegal Publishing, No!Illegal pirated publishing rampages up and down China's publication and cultural market. From January to March this year, there are as many as 6.052 million illegal books, 24.391 million audio-video diskettes, 180 thousand electronic products, 6.19 million cultist books on "Falun Gong" and another 808 thousand on Qigong that have been seized and destroyed.We can't imagine what serious social consequence would have been produced when should all those illegal noxious things have been freely distributed on the Chinese land. Illegal pirated publishing is harmful and criminal by nature as it robs the fruits of labor and legal rights of the authors and publishers. By spreading heresies to poison people's minds and racking up the interests of a few, it destabilizes not only social security but also impairs the country's construction of socialist spiritual civilization and its publication industry. Great damages have been wrought in China without doubt by criminal pirated publishing as we have seen and this is by no means in the way "no harms" have been brought or "no crimes" committed as some people have claimed. Innovation induces development, means dynamism to advance. Illegal pirated publishing likewise sets back civilization. Concerted efforts are needed to put an end to illegal pirated publishing in China. Providing effective protection over fruits of labor, results of innovation, will encourage people's zeal and consciousness to work to that end. The Chinese government and state leaders have already paid great attention to a complete ban on all illegal criminal publishing in China. There will certainly be no room for any dark dealings like those by a few in China's book publishing in the days to come in the near future. |
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