Chinese Court Stiffens Anti-Piracy Rules
China's top court issued a judicial interpretation last Thursday under which the threshold for prosecution of manufacturers and sellers of pirated movies, television programs, music and software has been lowered from 1,000 illegal discs to 500 or more. The court also lowered the threshold for "serious offender" status from 5,000 illegal discs to 2,500. "Serious offenders" can be sentenced to up to seven years in jail . Read more on this in the Hollywood Reporter.