On just about every busy street corner in China street peddlers sell stacks of pirated DVDs and CD-ROMs. In fact counterfeiting is so prevalent it’s become a tourist attraction. People don’t just visit the Great Wall, they come to frequent the black markets and purchase knock-off Prada sunglasses and poorly stitched Louis Vuitton handbag clones.
To address that problem, multinationals are working with the U.S. government to wage a very public war with China–one that often overshadows the piracy battles foreign investors face in other developing nations. One such nation is India, which quietly has become one of the world’s hotbeds of piracy.
