1. Before those tariffs could be applied, China moved to close factories that produced pirated tapes and compact disks and destroy illegal copies. 2. But arresting vendors and charging them with the misdemeanor offense of selling pirated tapes will not halt the practice, the organization believes. 3. The pirated tape has Rather debating aloud whether he should wash his hair. 4. Police regularly conduct raids and impose fines at one video shop, which deals solely in pirated tapes. 5. But fans all over China still listened to her on pirated tapes smuggled from the British colony of Hong Kong. 6. But things have changed since bootleggers openly sold pirated tapes from tables on the sidewalk. 7. Last month, they raided a favorite gathering site under a highway bridge for street peddlers of all kinds, including ones selling pirated tapes and CDs. 8. Meanwhile, video stores renting or selling pirated tapes or CDs have mushroomed, despite a copyright-protection agreement with the United States. 9. Music stores and video shops sell pirated tapes and some gift shops sell perfumes with phony designer labels. 10. Said said the pirated master video tapes were in big demand by those involved in distribution of cheap video tapes in Indonesia Hong Kong, South Korea and Pakistan. |