A Chinese court fined Apple 1 million yuan, or roughly $160,000, because its App Store hosted third-party applications that were peddling pirated e-books. The ruling stems from a suit brought by a group of Chinese authors earlier this year. The group originally was seeking 10 million yuan. There is a hint of irony in China fining an American company for piracy. The U.S. has claimed for years that China is willfully negligent about piracy of American music, television and movies.