This is true but it has markets

The below article is from China Daily just for information purpose and I do not intend to infringe copyright.

This is no way to be creative

When more low-level imitated dramas borrowed from the US hit the screens, people give them a name - shanzhai, the same one they have always given to those coarsely imitated cell phones and MP3s. These shanzhai products, however, seriously hinder creativity, says an article in Shenzhen Economic Daily. The following is an excerpt:
In China, shanzhai is an ironic modifier, usually put before electronic products such as mobile phones and MP3s, to indicate that these products, though bearing similar brand names or similar outward appearances and functions with famous-brand products such as Nokia and IPod, are actually manufactured in village workshops without independent technology. This word is also used to refer to some people who strongly resemble certain celebrities and thus are invited by advertisers to serve as spokesmen for their products.
Shanzhai mobile phones, MP3s and stars are quite common for Chinese netizens now. But recently, some netizens found that the newly broadcast comedy drama Ugly Wudi is adapted from the US counterpart Ugly Betty. On a closer check, they found that China has adapted so many overseas dramas in the past, so they also called them shanzhai dramas.
China's film and television circle has entered an era of extreme lack of creativity. For one thing, reproduced dramas are prevailing. Classic kungfu novels have been repeatedly adapted into scripts to shoot films or TV dramas, with one novel being reproduced once in two or three years. For the other, dramas that only follow others are also plaguing this circle. As dramas featuring Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) won the favor of audiences years ago, men wearing pigtails and Qing-styled costumes have begun to sweep across nearly every TV channel.
Under such circumstances, shanzhai dramas based on US originals become a better choice than the previous two. But most of them have not yet solved the property right issues with their overseas counterparts and thus they have illegally seized the fruits of others. Worse still, rampant low-level imitations kill creativity.
(China Daily 10/08/2008)

This is an article about Shanzai culture in China. Yes, Shanzai "products" to be blame but I see a huge market that embrace these Shanzai "products".
FOR Shanzai mobile phones, check www.babiken.com or www.babikenshop.com