China's anti-piracy efforts

After reading this recent article on the success of China's anti-piracy efforts, I realized how difficult it will be for specialized or high value software vendors to see the same gains. The article describes how "China had launched a crackdown and ordered authorities to buy computers with pre-installed legitimate software". In addition, it was also reported that 3,600 enterprises had come under the government’s "scanning". However, the applications they targeted are primarily the ones that come loaded on OEM machines (i.e. Adobe, Symantec, etc.). Buying legit pre-installed software will do nothing to prevent the pirating of specialized EDA, CAE, and other high value applications used to design and produce products in China.

-Vic