TAIWAN CD’S
September 1st, 2002 BY KEITH NUTHALLMEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation have claimed that Taiwan's continuing vast capacity to copy CD's, is a sign that it is failing to honour its commitments to abide by the WTO's TRIPs agreement (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights). At a meeting of a TRIPs council, at the WTO headquarters in Geneva, was told that Taiwan has at least 61 known optical media plants, (and nine or more underground plants), containing over 1,187 replication lines, including 93 DVD lines, 229 VCD/CD lines and 865 CD-R lines, ...
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