Numerous copyright parties form anti-Piracy alliance

Share video sites have been widely criticized for "piracy" hidden dangers in the new year finally broke out. Yesterday, the excitement net, Beijing Poly Bo na, Beijing Orange Day Entertainment, more than 80 copyright parties announced the joint formation of "anti-Piracy alliance." The alliance says it will launch an annual liquidation to prosecute video-sharing sites such as Tudou.

In fact, the domestic video site piracy problem, has long been concerned about the industry. Last December, Yue said the media reported that the television station and other related industries are stepping up the formulation of countermeasures to meet the Chinese video site on its TV dramas, animation and other works of illegal play.

Sources in the industry said that because of copyright issues, Tudou has stopped some of the overseas users, including Japan's IP access. And Youku also said, in order to circumvent the copyright risk, Youku very early shielded the Japanese and Korean IP, but Youku stressed that India, the United States, Canada and other countries of the IP is not shielded.

In this respect, Sohu Chairman Charles Zhang said, "The domestic video sharing site is a pirate base." "Since the video-sharing model has not proven to be a successful business model at home and abroad, many video-sharing sites are starting to return to the 1.0 media model," Zhang said.

According to the Anti-Piracy Alliance, members of the network introduced, since the end of 2007, the excitement network has found that the potato homepage recommended video content, there is an exciting network to obtain exclusive copyright video content. In the April 2008, the network contacted Tudou to demand that it remove pirated content and compensate for losses. May, the network will be Tudou to court, in November, before the court will make the final decision, the Potato Network initiative to seek settlement, compensation for the theft of "Jing Dance Door" "Exile" "Double Food" "Night Shanghai" and other 5 films and the economic loss caused by the excitement.

"This is only the first case of the potato infringement lawsuit, then we will prosecute its large number of infringing content, we have taken evidence, I believe that the law will be supported." "The excited net related person says.

However, the Tudou related responsible person responded that currently did not receive any this information or the lawyer letter.

One industry expert told reporters that the reason to share the site will be a large number of pirated, because the content of pirated video sharing site can bring huge traffic and a large number of users. And the video site a single profit model makes it difficult for them to accept the use of legitimate licensing costs.