File-share sites shut over smut
By Zhu Shenshen |
December 8, 2009, Tuesday
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MILLIONS of Chinese Netizens have become accustomed to downloading the latest Hollywood blockbusters through file-sharing Websites, but they have now lost access to the biggest one.
Regulators shut down BTChina and other file-sharing Websites starting at the weekend because they don't have online video and audio broadcasting licenses, Shanghai Daily learned yesterday.
It was another initiative in China's fight against the spread of pornography online and via mobile phones, analysts said.
Several well-known Websites were either closed down or ordered to delete all download links by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
"We have received notice to close because we don't have the license," founder Huang Xiwei said in a statement on the front page of BT China.
The company, which received more than 800,000 page views each day, strongly denied reports that Huang was under arrest.
Most of these Websites use a technology called P2P, or peer to peer.
Users distribute content - music, films, games and software - through P2P networks composed of participants that make a portion of their resources available to other network participants.
Peers are both suppliers and consumers of resources.
The P2P technology has shielded the Websites from regulators for some time and many file-swap Websites contain pornography and copyright violations.
UUbird.com, a P2P Website, said it would delete all links for downloading TV series and films by mid-February "to firmly support and comply with the state's laws and regulations."
Some other P2P Websites, such as VeryCD, were still operational yesterday.
Regulators shut down BTChina and other file-sharing Websites starting at the weekend because they don't have online video and audio broadcasting licenses, Shanghai Daily learned yesterday.
It was another initiative in China's fight against the spread of pornography online and via mobile phones, analysts said.
Several well-known Websites were either closed down or ordered to delete all download links by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
"We have received notice to close because we don't have the license," founder Huang Xiwei said in a statement on the front page of BT China.
The company, which received more than 800,000 page views each day, strongly denied reports that Huang was under arrest.
Most of these Websites use a technology called P2P, or peer to peer.
Users distribute content - music, films, games and software - through P2P networks composed of participants that make a portion of their resources available to other network participants.
Peers are both suppliers and consumers of resources.
The P2P technology has shielded the Websites from regulators for some time and many file-swap Websites contain pornography and copyright violations.
UUbird.com, a P2P Website, said it would delete all links for downloading TV series and films by mid-February "to firmly support and comply with the state's laws and regulations."
Some other P2P Websites, such as VeryCD, were still operational yesterday.
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