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Article: Pop stars learn to live with pirates In China, record companies find new ways to do business
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- February 24, 2003
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Dimpled good looks and saccharin-sweet love songs may have made him
an idol to millions of teenagers in China, but dark passions emerged
at an album-promotion party recently when Wang Lee Hom brandished
a sword to slash an oversized compact disk marked with the Chinese
character for ''theft.'' In case anyone missed the point, the normally
demure Wang announced that his favorite track on the new album was
''Why,'' a pop-music diatribe against piracy.''Pirates have already
killed China's music industry dead,'' Wang said. ''It frustrates my
life and destroys China's creative future.'' That may be an overstatement.
Record companies say that what piracy has really done in ...