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To: Arran Yuan who wrote (73299)	4/28/2010 4:54:48 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

In Shanghai, Hiding Bootlegs Before the World Visits nytimes.com A few weeks ago, government inspectors fanned out across the city and ordered shops selling pirated music and movies to stash away their illegal goods during the expo, a six-month extravaganza that opens May 1. But shop owners found a novel way to comply — they simply chopped their stores in half. In a remarkable display of uniformity, nearly every DVD shop in central Shanghai has built a partition that divides the store into two sections: one that sells legal DVDs (often films no one is interested in buying), and a hidden one that sells the illegal titles that everyone wants — Hollywood blockbusters like “Avatar” (for a dollar), Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” and even Lady Gaga’s latest CD “The Fame.”