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I'm a 100% true-blood Chinese, though not from China.

And I believe that in all the different herds, there are always the few black ones. There are Chinese scammers/cheats, yes i agree to that. But there are also American/English/African/etc cheats, the list goes on.

The Chinese manufacturers/sellers maybe cashing in on the MP3 players market by hacking players and stuff. But on the other hand, there are also American/English/African/etc cheats cashing in on other things. I'm not sure what those things they are cashing in on, but I'm very sure there is.

As what joie pointed out, China does not have very strict (if not any) Intellectual Property (IP) laws. Whats more, they are currently a developing country, so every cent means alot to them. Their government is opening up their market to the world, so they are relatively quite slack in the IP laws part. So many counterfeit goods make it to foreign shores. If counterfeiting brings in substantial amounts of money into the country, why would the government stop it? They get the foreign money in, whilst building their economy, killing two birds with one stone.

As xenocarcinus said, it is not a matter of the Chinese understanding the English, but more to the English understanding the Chinese. (English used in this context means all the non-Chinese). You need to understand why the Chinese manufacturers are doing these hacking things. In a developing country, only money has the loudest voice, so they will try to earn as much as they can. To increase their profit margin, they hack the players so as to increase their selling price.

So to sum, in the hacked MP3 players market, yes the Chinese are responsible for the majority of it. But the world does not live on MP3 players alone, and there are many other non-Chinese scammers/cheats.