Finally! A Big Crackdown on Copyright Infringement! NOT.....

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This isn't really "news," so I'll put it here. I just noticed in the local news that they raided a Chinese business man's warehouse of incense. Why? Because it looked similar to another business man's incense! !

WTF. Really? There are entire floors in the major malls that sell every new Hollywood video under the sun on DVD, and the police waste their time to bust a guy that's selling similar looking incense sticks? :facepalm:

From the article, it seems that his logos don't even look quite close enough to charge him for stealing the other guy's intellectual property, so he's just being questioned, LoL.

Ok, that's all, I just think it's hilarious a guy's in trouble for selling similar looking incense sticks as another guy. The coppers have even turned it into a press conference with CTN. I guess we know who's connected and who's not.

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Police raided homes sold incense and seized 190 cases involving infringing on intellectual property

Thursday, 25 June 2015 16:11 By: DAP ID-014

Phnom Penh: Location incense imported from foreign stocks to be distributed in violation of intellectual property is a police force of Interior in cooperation with local law enforcement to crack down on time this June 15, 2015.

According to Colonel Touch campaign, Chief Crime Intellectual Property Department of the Police Anti-Crime Economy Ministry said that after receiving complaints from Sing Sing London and the order from Gen. Chea methi Chief Deputy National Police and head of the Department of Crime Economy Minister and officials some under the leadership orders from Deputy Prosecutor is Ponnara visited checkpoints House 42F Street 162 neighborhood shopping Depot 2nd Kork by found incense importer that has logos similar to complaint number 190 cases of great works seized and detained a Chinese national who is the owner selling incense taken to ask as well. The location of the house where his competence has not found evidence that offense.

Currently, police are questioning a suspect in order to build a case sent to court to follow due process of law.

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Cambodian police always get to the bottom of things!! :thumb:
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I was glad to see this article. I predict that Cambodia will be like Singapore within 5 years, only cleaner.
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I bet all the shop owners with the name ' Lucky' are quaking in their boots right now.
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vladimir wrote:I bet all the shop owners with the name ' Lucky' are quaking in their boots right now.
As are many bar owners, who are selling fake Garage Smash burgers.
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Anyone want to buy some incense? This nice policeman just sold me a load of cartons for cheap.
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Now wouldn't that be fun if they applied their legendary professionalism to copyright infringement of khmer-related internet forums ? :D

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And on this subject - I was until fairly recently anti-piracy but Cambodia has changed my mind. There is not one record store, DVD store, software store in the country selling legit product.

Then I tried to buy Microsoft Office from Microsoft. They won't take payments from Cambodia... their solution was to tell me to call Singapore (at my expense) and pay three times the online rate. At that point I explained I knew how to use a Torrent Client and Piratebay and that's exactly what I did. Outrageously the same cunts at Microsoft have a permanent rep in this country to bleat about fucking piracy. If they want to sell product here labels, software houses, etc. need to make that product available and at a fair price for the market. It's hilarious that in Thailand or Malaysia many things are incredibly cheap if they're legit product in order to compete with pirates but because the market is small here - all of them are on a price gouge of epic proportions. In China you can buy a legit Chinese version of Windows for $10... and China is substantially richer than Cambodia. And as for paying nearly $1,000 for Office... it's never going to happen.
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They bust an incense seller?

I'm incensed!

This whole thing smells funny...
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General Mackevili wrote:This isn't really "news," so I'll put it here. I just noticed in the local news that they raided a Chinese business man's warehouse of incense. Why? Because it looked similar to another business man's incense! !
The Cambodian police only acts upon complaint and even then, they will assess if either the plaintiff is willing to pay enough money or the accused has enough money to make any of this worthwhile. In this case, it is obvious that the plaintiff paid lots of money to get them to move, because the products in themselves are not worth much money. The case even gives me the impression that case is about something else and that the "imitation" products are just used as an excuse to make another point.
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