On the other hand, I see no decrease in the rate of wiki spam, spam, port scans and spamvertised hosting from China. As a result, all Chinese IP's are pre-blocked from posting to piclist.com website and no-one can post .cn URLs. Sad, but otherwise I would spend all my time tracking down wiki spam. -- James. -----Original Message----- From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Xiaofan Chen Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 22:53 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: Re: [OT]:: From another land On 12/6/07, Shawn Tan wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 00:04:12 Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > The following data may or may not be that correct but let us > > just use it as a reference. > > http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-software-piracy-rat > > Hmm, the home of thepiratebay is #81!! Maybe they don't consider digital > downloads as piracy, and merely focus on physical media.. d: > I think that is the case. If counting digital download as piracy, the piracy rate of western countries will go up by quite a lot. By the way, now that Chinese government agencies are using official (and cheaper) Windows/Office (and a bit of local Linux) and the fact Lenovo/HP/Dell/etc are pushing out XP/Vista based PCs and beaten those no-brand PCs vendors out of business, I believe the piracy rate in China is dropping by quite a bit. And with the popularity of broadband in China, I think the physical media based piracy rate will be even lower. ;-) Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist