IN recent years, China has made tremendous efforts in its fight to prelect intellectual property rights (IPR) and its crackdown on copyright infringements, In 2004 alone, more than 85 million pirated commodities were comfiscated; 653 people were jailed for IPR infringements, and the Supreme People's Court lowered the threshold to file a lawsuit against IPR violations from US $24,000 to US $6,000.