China is beginning to show signs that it the technocracy is willing to enforce intellectual property rights.  A Beijing court ruled that the Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com, Inc. infringed on copyrights by posting U.S. movies online.  The subsidiary of NASDAQ listed sohu.com must pay a whopping $139,000 in damages and publish an acknowledgement of its intellectual property infringement.  "The studios won't hesitate to litigate, whenever appropriate, to enforce against the unauthorized use of their copyrights," said Mike Ellis, Asia-Pacific regional director of the Motion Picture Association.

I don’t know about you, but $139,000 is a drop in the seeping bucket of intellectual property being exploited in China.  Many believe that the Chinese government is supportive of these types of lawsuits because the content that is being pirated violates the technocracy’s censorship rules.  When I was in Shanghai in late 2004 there was a mini-Blockbuster on every major street corner.  I was constantly accosted by managers of the mobile Blockbuster to purchase pirated movies and genuine “Roledex” watches.  Go figure!

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