Chinese Gaming Mag puts Pirate ISOs on Cover Disc
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 26, 2009 22:41 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Famitsu, Made in China, Magazines, Mass Media, Piracy
A Chinese gaming rag, 掌机迷, one bearing a striking resemblance to Famitsu, has taken a distinctly Chinese approach to respecting copyright, by helpfully including the full ISO and similar data on its cover disc for the games it is reviewing.


Apparently, the disc has the various ROMs and images to all the games reviewed. All very convenient. And not bad value for $1.50…
It does not look as if China has much intent of taking these things seriously.
Interestingly, the magazine sports Japanese lessons to help avid Chinese gamers play such titles, or perhaps merely to aid them in copying them better.
Via Famicom Mania.
Will China ever clean up its dubious act?











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The chinese pirate cd or dvd are so poor quality that you can't put them into computer or dvd player and expect it to play or install, guess they should invest in real cdr and dvdr insteal pirated cdr/dvdr.
No surprise. In China, Copyright = Copying is Right.
omg win
Is it me,or do the images used in that game mag heavily pixelated? Also, people still read game mags?!
i do...
Ditto
I should repost Unlimited Ripoff Works here but I'm lazy
tch, commies....
Why would I want to buy a magazine with a CD or DVD when I can download all that for free?
you can say whatever about china. but you won't live without it. China is a copying country,but where came the source? Chinese? You guys.
WHY SO MANY ANGRY HERE,? YOU DO YOU REALLY HATE US.OK ,LET GO TO WAR !
China so unoriginal these days, pirated games and bootlegs galore
One for all, all from ME!??
That is Communist, Right??!
Thai also does this. I remember buying a ROMs and Emulator magazine that has Visual Boy Advanced and tons of roms in it for about a dollar (30 Thai Baht).
This reminds me of when my dad came back from hong kong and with TWO nintendo cartridges.... each cartridge had over 100 games in it >_<
I Never bought another 8bit nintendo game again
This'll makes Jack Sparrow reeaaaaaaallllly happy :)
Arrrr!
I see this all the time in Hong Kong... PSP ISOs in boxed tins and Chinese mags with ISOs... where you been?
Wow. Just a while ago I bought an art book and it had the entire series burned onto a DVD with Chinese subtitles on it.
Oh man, Shiren DS 2. I want to play it so bad.
It's funny how China was one of the advanced cultures long time ago but now they just copy everything. Lacking innovation eh?
AND motivation I'd bet.
They are busy making Stealth Jet.
And Gundam Shenlong.
Gundam Shenlong? We're all doomed.
I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.
I have a Chinese friend, so hopefully I'll get a nice little spot somewhere with plenty of loli to hold and MAYBE have consensual sex with.
could a CD-rom be fullfilled with all the games they mentioned?even PSP iso?! amazing....
damned then I should try to buy this magazine coz I live here lol
Look at the disc pictured and you'll see it says "DVD-ROM".
Is for... copying them better
China for the pirating win lol
Just careful of the 'pirated food' when eating in China. You can order a roasted pigeon, but get served a roasted rat that look almost identical with the head chopped off...
mmm. rat. never was there a tastier dish...
uh, if you were a cat that is. yeah, a cat....
I much as I'd like to laugh, I think what you said is true... O_O
It is bad there, but heck I went to northern Canada once and saw a sign for "Roast beef sandwich - made with beef!".... Poor horsies.
these kind of stuff has been around for quite a long time.. last time i went to beijing i got this box set thingy with like 40 psp games inside o.O
And that's why they do it.
Epic mag lol.
Wow all they need is US version and I'm all over that.
Magazine is serious business.
Warriors of Fate? Ain't that a very old game?
a pirated magazine with pirated software inside! a match made in heaven! (or china!) lol!
HAHA. The real irony will come when someone scans and uploads the mag. I can't wait. Someone link me :p
Trust me, it's not just that...there are at least a dozen or so magazine with similar stuff when I visited China.
The thing is, that many of you did not realize, is the different type of market and consumers as the one in US. For us, An Anime DVD might cost us around half month allowance or 4-5 hours part time work. But in chinese an imported Anime disc would cost them 20-25 hours of working full-time. Not to mention most company had not even made the effort to go into the Chinese market. So the private sector had taken up the slack and fulfill the need with much more affordable goods.
I've been to some Chinese website, and they go as far as having people translating the whole PSP game from Japanese to Chinese in matter of weeks. The same had been attempted by various English sub group, but never left the prologue stage.
From what I see, China had some very hardcore Anime fans doing a lot for the community so I get to enjoy watching new anime one day after its out. as oppose to one-two weeks waiting on Crunchy roll, for some torrent, which I see it not much better.
But this is not just about hardcore fans. This is about people PROFITING off the work of others, not making something available to the public. That's the big difference between 'fan subbing' and 'business'. Price tags anyone?
But it IS better, since fansubbers and raw providers don't charge money for their releases. It's still copyright violation, but it's morally superior. I know, morals are a can of worms in every discussion, but I think I made my point.
China's "cloning" business = srs bsns
And to think if the media industry sold the data at cost and focusing on a 30% of all sales of that data they would be making money off pirates and everyone else.
Yes you wont end piracy but you will under mine it as you leave retailers and the end sellers to to fight over price points.