Below is my comment on this news:
Two years ago, when I left China for US college, I feel most people around me don't care about FOSS, or respect originality & copyright. - They use cracked software. You can buy a disk that installs cracked Windows for less than 1 dollar. Cracked Photoshop & MS Office & whatever licensed software are all over the internet. - They download music & movie for free. - China's internet is full of copycats because the original websites aren't available due to censorship. (Like FB & Twitter). One of the largest IT Company, Tencent, is full of copied products.
But now I feel China is making some progress. Like: - Online streaming companies are paying for copyrighted material, and you can't easily download movie/anime for free as you do in the past. - As Apple becomes more popular, many people start paying for music in iTunes. To my delight, websites like http://mou.li/ even let people buy Sublime Text & Alfred & 1Password easily in China. I really can't believe people would pay over $50 for a text editor two years ago, but now some of them do. - A recent example. A very large company in China named Guokr launched a website: http://www.15yan.com/ . It's a blatant copy of medium. And in their about page, they are literally saying something like "Our product is currently a copycat of Medium, and we'll adpat it to Chinese market to make it better". Shortly after the website went public, someone asked a question in a Chinese Q&A website: "Can we tolerate such blatant plagiarism?" Take a look at it: http://www.zhihu.com/question/23400374 . I know you can't read Chinese but take a look at the pictures in the highest upvoted(2130)[1] and third highest(756)[2] answers. Two Chinese Web-Devs compared the CSS and HTML of these two sites, expressed their anger, and described the copycat as "humiliating" and "disgusting". Nearly all the answerers requested this copycat going down immediately and said they'd never use it.
I'm really happy China is really making some progress on this matter.
[1]: http://p3.zhimg.com/69/e3/69e3f847236c2257d925ff11cbb14cc4_m... [2]: http://p3.zhimg.com/2f/6b/2f6b6e698413e0db745efdcb8be73867_m...