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Pirated disk sellers cross thin blue line
I never thought in my wildest dreams I would be caught in such a quandary. For half an hour, I found myself in a dark room that was to be raided. I could hear every word, every footstep in the room across the aisle that had been stormed and was being searched.
It felt like I was in a bomb shelter, or some Anne Frank-style attic. Only this time, I was with the "bad guys," legally speaking. It was a police raid on pirated CDs and DVDs that I had not prepared to participate in, let alone report on. Around 4 pm in the afternoon of July 20, I wandered into the Kemao Building in Tianhe District of Guangzhou. It's one of a dozen "computer malls" in the southern metropolis, where people swarm to pick up the latest high-tech gadgets, such as MP4s and CD-ROMs. As it is located right next to several of the city's universities, many of
its patrons are students, identifiable from their hip clothing.
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