China enlists US ‘p2p’ help
p2p news / p2pnet: If you’re a US web site operator carrying Chinese movies, you may soon find the FBI breathing down your neck.
Communist China and the US are now virtual partners vis-à-vis movies, music and pirates of the high Cs, so the China Film Copyright Protection Association feels able to demand that “American law offices” look into web sites that carry Chinese flics without permission.
This will be absolutely no problem.
The US Department of Justice and, through it, the FBI, etc, are routinely seconded to the entertainment and software cartels to act as industry cops.
“Around 150 Chinese films are played free of charge on some US websites, including almost all the famous Chinese films,” says Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.
“The association’s president Zhu Yongde says it is clear that those websites were never authorized by the film producers to play the films online and their free services of playing and downloading Chinese films are violations of copyrights.”
“In July, China and the US singed a memorandum on the cooperation of film copyright protection. It highlighted the responsibilities of the Chinese side to crack down on pirated films,” says the story. “However, since there had been no proven pirated cases found in the US, no provisions were set to regulate the US side.”
But, warns a senior official from China’s State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television notes, if the “violations are proven true,” China will ask the US to take similar actions.
No doubt China’s new RIAA equivalent, the P2P AP (P2P Application Promotion Alliance) will become involved at some point.
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See:-
Xinhua – Chinese films pirated in US, November 4, 2005
become involved – China goes p2p, November 2, 2004
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November 4th, 2005 at 2:36 pm
The government of the P.S.A. aiding and abetting the Communists in Red China to go after American comes as no surprise to me. The cartels know no shame and is not above bribing any government or court. The French poor protesting lack of jobs and poverty is a good thing. Maybe people all over the world should look at their governments in the same light. I would like to see the rule of law be applied in every area of the world.
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