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On 23 Nov 2005 10:48:21 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

>Mike Petro > wrote:
>>
>>Lets face the truth, China has been forging just about everything very
>>blatantly because they can and because nobody punishes them for it. It
>>is not only tea but movies, watches, and just about any type of
>>consumer goods imaginable. If we the customer don't educate them that
>>this is not acceptable it will never change. If we continue to buy $20
>>Rolex watches (wink-wink) they will continue to make them. The Chinese
>>legal system, and government, simply hasn't been able to keep up
>>widespread capitalism, but they will eventually if enough of us speak
>>up and not become passive sheep waiting to be fleeced.
>
>Note that this sort of behaviour was considered acceptable in the west
>in the 18th century. The concept of intellectual property is a fairly
>recent one. The problem is that, whereas the west got the concept of
>intellectual property before that of mass production, the Chinese have
>adopted them in the opposite order.
>--scott

Good point! Makes a lot of sense.

Mike Petro
http://www.pu-erh.net