On May 1st, China opened its World’s Fair, Expo 2010, in Shanghai. People visiting that city to attend the World’s Fair may have to look a little harder to pick up the latest new releases on DVD. As reported in the New York Times, a few weeks before the Fair opened, government inspectors ordered shops selling bootleg DVD’s and CD’s to remove them from store shelves.
How did those shops respond? They divided their stores into two sections, a front section that sells legal DVD’S and a hidden section that sells illegal titles, often behind a slide-away bookshelf. A representative of the Motion Picture Association of America called the situation troubling.
The business is a competitive one. Across the street from “Movie World” is its competitor “Even Better Than Movie World.”
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