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Tclcis

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Rights to request data from companies. However, if the data is stored overseas, lets say the UK then it is out of the jurisdiction of the PRC and they cannot ask to access it.

Furthermore, they would need "probable cause" to make a request like this.

22-Apr-2016 11:29:12

Dilbert2001
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Tclcis said :
Rights to request data from companies. However, if the data is stored overseas, lets say the UK then it is out of the jurisdiction of the PRC and they cannot ask to access it.

Furthermore, they would need "probable cause" to make a request like this.

If you insist a Chinese company spend $300 million to acquire another company but does not hold any of its data at all in China, doesn't do anything with its new acquisition, and leave all the control to the players, etc, help yourself. Unlike other users, I don't intend to argue on these kinds of purely hypothetical things without basis and comparisons with similar situations.

I'll let everybody think what they like to think with the real world information they can compare with. And I just want to advice those who still have a slight worry if they don't get their feet tangled up in political issues with the Chinese government, there really is no much to worry about.

Correct that the Chinese government won't disturb a local business with no reason. But sometimes a foreign company still has to exercise some degree of caution on their data stored in China. Hence, I quoted Apple's refusal of assisting the FBI by hacking a terrorist iPhone. Not that the China government will look at Apple's information for no reason, but there is always a possibility that the Chinese government can ask for the same thing FBI asked, WITH CAUSE.

22-Apr-2016 11:49:38

Dilbert2001
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Dilbert2001 said :
Tclcis said :
Rights to request data from companies. However, if the data is stored overseas, lets say the UK then it is out of the jurisdiction of the PRC and they cannot ask to access it.

Furthermore, they would need "probable cause" to make a request like this.

If you insist a Chinese company spend $300 million to acquire another company but does not hold any of its data at all in China, doesn't do anything with its new acquisition, and leave all the control to the players, etc, help yourself. Unlike other users, I don't intend to argue on these kinds of purely hypothetical things without basis and comparisons with similar situations.

I'll let everybody think what they like to think with the real world information they can compare with. And I just want to advice those who still have a slight worry if they don't get their feet tangled up in political issues with the Chinese government, the really is not much to worry about.

Correct that the Chinese government won't disturb a local business with no reason. I have mentioned it from the beginning. But sometimes a foreign company still has to exercise some degree of caution on their data stored in China. Hence, I quoted Apple's refusal of assisting the FBI by hacking a terrorist iPhone. Not that the China government will look at Apple's information for no reason, but there is always a possibility that the Chinese government can ask for the same thing FBI asked, WITH CAUSE, such as relationship to Falun Gong.

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23-Apr-2016 01:51:05

Dilbert2001
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Autokill said :
Chinese population 1.3 billion, runescape users throughout the entire server system < 100k. Where will the servers be kept based off money. Existing world servers with hundreds each playing or china?



I am not saying definitely the servers will not be moved, but there can also be different servers set up at different strategical locations, or mega-servers serving each region. Support can be centralized at China, while localization teams can be deployed at different locations. This set up will still justify your reason of profitability. As a matter of fact, similar Chinese acquirers like Tencent and PWE did not move the western servers to China, they set up new servers in China and over the world. It is just for reference, not to claim whether you are wrong or I am right.

But whatever server moves or different servers can't be set up overnight. There will still be at least months before it takes effect.

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