- Gorbushka
Gorbushka ( _ru. ТЦ "Горбушка", shopping center Gorbushka) is a marketplace for dealing in music, electronics and household equipment in
Moscow ,Russia .Before the year 2001 the name "Gorbushka" referred to an open-air
black market for software, music, videos and electronics. The market was in the city square by the GorbunovPalace of Culture ( ДК имени Горбунова), hence the name. The term itself is an associative usage of an untranslatable Russian word for the first slice of a round loaf bread half-covered with bread crust and with the shape resembling ahump (Russian:горб). The word itself has many cultural associations in Russia.The market dealt mostly in unlicensed music and software CDs, videos,
gaming console s withmod chip s, as well as PC andconsole games . Due to thecopyright infringement issues Gorbushka was in sights of the government for a long time. The market closed in 2001.In its place a more legal shopping center Gorbuskin dvor was opened. However, inexpensive pirated CDs/DVDs are still perfectly available in this new shopping center.
References
* [http://www.gorbushka.ru/page/center.html Gorbushka shopping center home page] ru icon
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news/newsid_1232000/1232123.stm Gorbushka without Piratery] , aBBC article ru icon
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3333627.stm Moscow targets media pirates] , aBBC article en icon
* [http://www.gorbushka.ru/ gorbushka.ru internet portal] ru icon
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