China Web video piracy

On Sept 15, the Chinese news portal website Sohu.com filed a lawsuit against one of the country’s larger video-sharing websites, Youku.com, for broadcasting unauthorized videos of 503 Chinese movies and TV dramas.

The company, together with video websites Joy.cn and Voole.com, formed an anti-piracy group that pledged to file a series of lawsuits in coming months against companies including Tudou.com and Xunlei, which were charged with the same wrongdoing.

Unlike their foreign counterparts, Chinese video-sharing websites rely heavily on videos such as films and soap operas, partly because comparatively fewer Chinese users record and post their own video clips on the Internet.

That has made Chinese websites more prone to copyright disputes and in direct competing with legal video streaming websites.

According to figures from domestic research firm Analyses International, market revenues of China’s online video industry reached 122 million yuan in the second quarter of this year – up 57.2 percent from a year earlier.

Source : Konaxis

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