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SHANGHAI: The latest mystery in Shanghai, complete with sliding bookshelves, secret passageways and contraband goods, is this: Why are all the popular DVDs and CDs missing from this city’s shops?
But it’s a mystery easily solved. In China, embarrassments are usually hidden from sight when the world comes visiting, and that is what has happened to a large supply of bootleg DVDs and CDs as Shanghai prepares for the World Expo, which is expected to attract 70 million visitors.
A few weeks ago, government inspectors fanned out across the city and ordered shops selling pirated music and movies to stash away their illegal goods during the expo, a six-month extravaganza that opens on May 1.
Shop owners found a novel way to comply — they chopped their stores in half. In a remarkable display of uniformity, nearly every DVD shop in central Shanghai has built a partition that divides the store into two sections: one that sells legal DVDs, and a hidden one that sells the illegal titles that everyone wants.
Customers entering these shops are now directed toward a slide-away bookshelf that reveals a secret corridor.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/China-hides-pirated-DVDs-before-Expo/articleshow/5870670.cms |
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