Today, piracy¹ problem is increasing strikingly in China. Besides books, any products, like tapes, CDs and software can be copied.

It has been well known that due to piracy legitimate² producers, inventors and authors have suffered losses in many ways. At first, pirated copies often cost much less than the original ones. As a result, they can enjoy a considerable price advantage despite the poor quality. Compared with pirated products, the original ones sell poorly.

Secondly, because of poor quality, the authors' reputation as well as the publishers' is greatly hurt. Moreover, pirated products may also have negative impacts on customers provided that those legitimate producers' enthusiasm is greatly hurt. The problem will evolve into a vicious cycle.

In my opinion, the government should launch more anti-piracy campaigns and strengthen supervision³ to further clean up the book, video and software markets. Besides, as customers, we should raise our awareness⁴ on how to use legal products as well. Only in this way, I think, can we bring an end to piracy.