Can Apple Break Through China's Great Wall of Counterfeits?

""The generally accepted yardstick when you go into China for any software or consumer device is that for every one copy -- one legal copy -- there will be three more pirated ones," Laura DiDio, analyst and research fellow for the Yankee Group, told MacNewsWorld. "These are very, very sophisticated [piracy] rings. ... They consider piracy an art form. This is a huge, looming problem for Apple.""

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