From today's SCMP (HKG) on pirated software:
"Officials have rejected a unionist legislator's plea for businesses to be allowed to use pirated software bought before copyright laws came into effect on April 1..."
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If only the date was other than the 1st, this could be taken for the joke it is
That such a plea was even considered speaks volumes for the waste of space and time that is local "Government". Despite this new legislation, enforcement will be little more than a token gesture.
Piracy is, and will remain endemic, as long as software developers/publishers continue to ask such high prices. I fully agree that it's their right to charge for their work, but hopefully they will "come to" and realise that it's pricing that has led to the rife piracy.