China online music clamp down
p2pnet.net News:- Online music and game distributors in China will have to submit all imported products for censor approval, the authorities have ruled.
“The moves come amid official efforts to step up control over the Internet and other media, both to shield Chinese companies from competition and to suppress material deemed politically sensitive, violent or sexually graphic,” says The Associated Press.
“The music controls are meant to encourage growth of a ‘civilized and healthy’ Internet and to protect Chinese companies that have lost market share to foreign rivals, the Culture Ministry said on its Web site.”
The restrictions will aply to web sites and mobile phone companies that distribute music, the ministry said, according to AP, whhc goes on:
“It said distributors of Chinese music must register but won’t be required to submit products for approval. The rules also ban the establishment of foreign-financed music distributors, the ministry said.”
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Also See:
The Associated Press – China tightens control over online music, December 12, 2006
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December 15th, 2006 at 12:16 am
Not by chinese censor desire though
Censorship will foster more piracy as well 
So:
Unblock all the damned imports (preferred by me and maybe the RIAA and MPAA too)
-or-
Block Emule and BitTorrent and make it a chore to hack unlike the web censorship (fits China’s nature better)