Posted on 02/18/2005 12:11:36 AM PST by nickcarraway
Randolph Hobson Guthrie III, the black-sheep scion of one of the city's oldest, wealthiest and most socially prominent families, is behind bars in Shanghai, waiting to find out if he'll be spending the next 15 years in a Chinese labor camp. The 38-year-old heir — who can trace his family roots back to Founding Father Robert Livingston and his family fortune back to Andrew Carnegie's partner, Henry Phipps — has just been tried for video piracy and will soon learn the court's verdict.
He was arrested last July in what U.S. Customs officials called their "first-ever joint law-enforcement investigation" with Chinese authorities. It targeted a network that distributed counterfeit motion pictures worldwide.
Guthrie, who lived in China since 1995, is charged with selling 180,000 pirated DVDs over the Internet to customers in 25 countries — earning him more than $1 million.
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Let's arrest the stupid foreigner.
When you are a foreigner, you often don't bribe the right people and have to depend your domestic aides to do that.
"Poor Randy???"
With that kind of start in life, the wealth, the connections and the supposed intelligence, this was all he could find to do with himself?
Sorry. Poor Randy needed a spanking he didn't get.
That's pretty much what I was thinking.
The US pressures China into getting tough on intellectual property rights, so they bust a foreigner?
Whoo hoo.....Now how about all those CD/DVD/Software shops that surround my house?
Hell, I see the police and other officials shopping these places quite often.
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