iTunes cards here is Aus (and I assume elsewhere) are regularly sold with a discount of 25%, suggesting that that is the retailer's markup. Add 5% costs, and it's easy to understand why Apple can't sell anything with less than a 30% cut. Anyone who doesn't use discounted iTunes cards is getting seriously ripped off.

In a country like China, it's likely the cheating students (or their parents) knew how to leverage relationships with the people in charge. The outcome would be different if the teacher had friends higher in power.

This is also why I come here. Except I only read the top funny comments.

It is definitely true that a large proportion of China is poorly educated, but things are rapidly changing. My girlfriend's parents are essentially illiterate (they speak Shanghainese, but know very little Mandarin), yet her generation is now university educated. Not that you need a university education to get a downloading program and click some links on a website. She has no idea what Bittorrent is, but I think that's what her (Chinese) downloader is using. Once kids gain access to the Internet, they'll work out what to do.

They already download movies by the bucketload, and they don't need to go outside the firewall. My Chinese girlfriend was quite perplexed about the number of DVDs being sold here.