China deadlines ‘illegal’ music sites
p2pnet view Politics | Music:- If you’re in China and you’re running a site the country’s Communist leaders think features “irregular and illegal music”, you have only seven days to go straight.
The ministry of culture had “revealed to the local media” that a “notice about clearing irregular music websites has been deployed to the various provinces and the task is progressing smoothly”, p2pnet noted in our the first world headline roundup of the new year, we quoted ChinaTechNews as saying.
Some 237 “irregular music websites in China” of which a third have already been suspended, says the story, adding:
“Under the requirement of the Ministry of Culture, websites listed in the notice should immediately stop Internet cultural activities and delete contents that are against the regulations and laws of China or contents that infringe the copyrights of their legal owners. Websites that pass the examine after rectification can apply for licenses or make registrations in provincial cultural administrations.”
The deadline for the “rectification” is January 10.
ChinaTechNews doesn’t say what’ll happen to sites which ignore the command, or when.
ChinaTechNews – China’s Ministry Of Culture To Clear Illegal Music Websites, December 31, 2010
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January 3rd, 2011 at 11:20 am
Ahhh the Chinese people have such respect for freedom and individual rights, don’t they?
I only wish we could make Canada more like China. That would be so awesome. Maybe if we keep flooding the country with people from other cultures that don’t have our long tradition of upholding individual rights against collectivist interests, we might be able to have CHANGE. You want CHANGE don’t you?
Maybe if we’re lucky our overlords in Ottawa will pass that new copyright legislation written by the American media cartels so we can clamp down on our internet too.
Don’t you want to live in a nanny-state too? Think about how awesome it will be to have all your online movements tracked and traced, and then maybe your ISP can reveal your identity so you can have some fun defending yourself in court or coughing up a month’s salary to a huckster lawyer.