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China Details Copyright Crackdown: The government trumpeted the success of a recent clampdown on such violations, following pressure from the United States to improve protection of foreign intellectual property rights. In the first half of 1994, authorities seized about 5.94 million books and magazines that violated copyright laws or spread violence and pornography, the New China News Agency said. It did not specify how many were copyright violations. About 200,000 pirated compact discs and 750,000 video- and audiotapes were also confiscated, it said. About 7,000 people were arrested and 56 factories and shops were closed.