The recording industry dumps much of its surplus stock in Asia,
especially China in the form of cut out CDs.  Unfortunately, ?Most
music-label executives won't talk about it on the record, and no one
is monitoring the traffic. (BMG in New York would not comment for this
article; EMI in London and Universal in Los Angeles declined repeated
interview requests.)? ? Time Asia.
I want to find out how they end up in China, who in the west is making
them available, what benefits they get from doing this (extra profits,
tax write offs etc), and how this affects the legal status of the
actual CDs and DVDs
Here are a few links that introduce the subject of Cut out CDs, known
as Dakou in Chinese
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501030127-409647,00.html
http://www.moremusic.co.uk/links/features/cut-out.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5226945/
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2004/08/20.html
http://www.theworld.org/globalhits/2005/09/30.shtml
http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/26/theme/26T2.html
http://www.punkinternational.com/v2/content.php?article.241