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<P><B>The Ministry of Public Security in Hong Kong Annual Report -- The Triads</B>
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<P>The surveillance of the Triads a high priority given the recent terrorist attack in the neighboring city of Shenzhen. Despite being a model of prosperity and technological leadership for decades, Hong Kong persists as a haven for organized crime.  The Triads, namely the Luminous Path and Red Arrow, vie for control of the ten-trillion credit shipping business, much of which supplies greater Asia with pirated technology, illegal drugs, and weapons.
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<P>Most disturbing of all, the Triads preach an ethic of technopiracy that has found enthusiastic support among small shopkeepers and businessmen who often aid the gangsters and buy their bootlegged software.  Gullible and greedy, this army of middlemen remain insensitive to how their violations of intellectual property and copyright laws damage the global information economy.