Developing countries, often experience a phase of pirating foreign goods, in the hope of closing the gap between them and developed nations. Japan and Hong Kong, and Britain and the U.S. before them, passed through this phase before enacting strict copyright laws.
由此可知，開發中國家為了縮小與先進國家的差距，對外國著作權都有「保護不周」的過渡階段，古今中外皆然的。