Comments on: Harry Potter Counterfeiters Beware!

By: chinese porcelain

chinese porcelain — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:20:43 +0000

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By: harry potter prequel

harry potter prequel — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:47:06 +0000

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By: refrieds

refrieds — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:43:00 +0000

Thanks for the info. I guess J.K. Rowling and her publishers have their work cut out for them. At least they can get some knockoff Viagra for their trouble!

By: Ontario Emperor

Ontario Emperor — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:03:30 +0000

The link wasn’t allowed, but the quoted text above came from an International Herald Tribune article dated July 31.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/31/news/china.php

By: Ontario Emperor

Ontario Emperor — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:02:38 +0000

They’re creating Harry Potter books out of whole cloth in China.

Wang Lili, editor of the China Braille Publishing House, which published “Harry Potter and the Chinese Porcelain Doll” in 2002, one of the numerous knockoffs here, said: “We published the book out of a very common incentive. Harry Potter was so popular that we wanted to enjoy the fruits of its widely accepted publicity in China.”

The attitude reflected in Wang’s comment goes a long way toward explaining not only the explosion of unauthorized Harry Potter literature in China, but also the much larger problem of rampant piracy in China, where travelers can find six different knockoffs of Viagra - without prescription - on display at airport drugstores, and where fake DVDs, fake Picassos, fake bottled water, fake cellphones and even near-identical copies of automobile models are widely available.