In fact, if you follow the news, the theft of intellectual property is often traced to the Chinese. The FBI has caught numerous Chinese agents stealing a lot of private and government information in the recent past.
Pirated software is a huge problem in the global economy. It is estimated that one third of all software being sold is counterfeit. A large percentage of the software sold on auction and even e-commerce sites is counterfeit, also. It's not uncommon for a consumer to think they are getting legitimate software when they are not.
Besides costing jobs and revenue to legitimate firms, knock-off software can damage a machine, or even lead to information theft when malicious software is added to the mix.
I'm sorry that that certain people in China are outraged by Microsoft's solution to the theft of their property, but let's face it, they are hardly the biggest hacker in China.
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