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> E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks,

That's not the same at all. That was consumer fraud.

What’s funny is we call it fraud here and put the person in jail. In China they don’t call that same act fraud, but they do claim that harming a company’s reputation is a crime.

I agree with you that our legal system states he broke the law, but the same may be true of the story in China. The state always justifies its behavior with the law, but that doesn’t make it justice.

EDIT: nevermind, I misread the post

that same act

I think what jack9 is saying is that it's not the same act.

The person you are replying to knows that. He is saying its funny how if you took both people, and put them in the opposite country and had them commit the "same act" that they had done in their home country they would be fine. i.e. copying cds and distributing them is OK by china, and blog posts about unethical advertising of medicine is OK by the US.

Oh, right, thanks.

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