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Piracy has mushroomed with the spread of DVDs and VCDs, and as cable television has penetrated more than 40m homes.

Those who can afford to are buying DVD machines; poorer consumers are settling for SVCDs; and the poorest of all are picking up VCDs for a song.

In China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and much of South-East Asia, however, VCDs lived on, outselling VCRs or any other kind of video player.

Cheap, digital and convenient, VCDs seemed a winner.

The only winners are the pirates, because all these devices can play VCDs.

"Chinese consumers don't want to pay 36 yuan for a VCD, see it once or twice and give it away," said K. Y. Lai, general manager of Shanghai CAV Thakral Home Entertainment Ltd., a Chinese-Singapore joint venture and China's largest distributor of Hollywood films on video.

Many pirate disc labels carry the name of licensed VCD makers, but these state-owned factories deny they are involved with the copycats.

China produces 20 million VCD players annually, but current market demand is only half that amount.

Like an audio CD, a single VCD can hold 74 or 80 minutes' worth of data.

The VCD market, which was already in decline, promptly collapsed.