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The Idea-Stealing Factory
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China has grown into the world's made-to-order contract manufacturer, source of more than half the world's output of toys, radios, DVD players, telephones, cameras, and much more. But while most of that production is legitimateChina's factories are paid by foreign companies to mass-produce the latter's ideas and designsmuch of it is illicit. The nation has deployed its prodigious replication skills to flood world markets with pirated goods and fakes, from designer clothing to consumer electronics. China's trading partners tell themselves that this blatant disregard for the intellectual property of others is natural for a former command economy at an early stage...