tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12080117.post111724558898007069..comments2023-06-24T14:14:41.889+00:00Comments on Newswatch: China's Youku remove copyrighted videosNewsjunkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305954960508082514noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12080117.post-71961350457634493892010-02-16T22:40:48.318+00:002010-02-16T22:40:48.318+00:00My first reaction when i notice that youkou was re...My first reaction when i notice that youkou was removing their copyrighted material was:"Oh Shit! Somebody got to them!?!"<br /><br />My first though was Government bribes...(Hollywood must have paid them enough to get them to clamp on companies like youku as they left a lot of bad quality movies there while removing the version of it that were properly copied)<br /><br />Hard to say where the pressure comes from because Chinese youtube clone sites do not have anything to offer to the outside world. the search algorithm do not understand english properly, there is not english support what so ever, meaning that unless they provide something illegal(being part of a country that would never acknowledge the western world as equal) they will never go international or go close to become a youtube. All of these site are only known for offering pirated tv by the western world.<br /><br />My most educated guess(now that i ve read a bit on that) is that the government was suffering from to many FAKE DVD sales(bribes) lost.<br /><br />until 3 years ago the only reliable source of western tv in china was: the DVD!<br /><br />Since the arrival of youku, no need for DVDs anymore... so someone is loosing money big time, that someone is part of the Chinese government as to print billions of DVD you need a factory, and these factory are control by Chinese gov. <br /><br />I would say that the average amount of fake dvd own buy expat living in china for more than a year is around 500. that's about 500$ <br /><br />(Fake dvd are sold at 6RMB = under a 1$ plus it is impossible to buy real dvd in China)<br /><br />eitherway there is no copyright law in china, No there is no law in china to protect any foreigners in any ways.<br /><br />whatever the cause if chinese face a foreigners of any kind in a court of law, the chinese wins. For got sake nike lost a copyright law suit for using a matchstick man in their commercial, as if match stick man was invented by a Chinese guy that was still alive?!@?!? <br /><br />Basically it's a pain, as i love watching tv in the background playing when i work, now i will need to chase the new video site that got given (usually the cousin of the sister of...) the so called "deleted files from youku" to start their own new little video company and pump up their company startup.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com