ABSTRACT
Walking through one of Beijing’s crowded street markets, the foreign tourist is unaware of the lurking thieves until it is too late. Before he can escape, he is surrounded by several men who frantically chant two words: ‘CD-Rom? CDRom?’ Instead of trying to pick a pocket, these thieves are really some of China’s most notorious entrepreneurs trying to earn a living. Their stolen property offered for sale consists of American-made software titles reproduced on counterfeit CD-Rom disks and sold at a fraction of the cost of the bona fide product.2
