Arranging a raid on a compact disk factory of a new company, JinDie Science & Technology Development Co in the southern Guangxi Autonomous Region of China Microsoft Corp says it found 5,700 disks loaded with Microsoft software the company valued at more than $50m. It says the factory wasn’t being monitored by government copyright agents, as Peking had promised all compact disk plants would be from early this year, and source identification numbers required under the US-China accord signed last year were missing from the seized disks. The company was not so high-handed as to go into the factory mob-handed in a free-lance operation – the raid was carried out by the Guangxi branch of China’s Administration of Industry & Commerce, which let Microsoft representatives tag along.
