Ministry of Culture crackdown on film piracy

It times Yu Xinfei recently, the Ministry of Culture in the country to carry out cultural market intellectual property protection special law enforcement action, will be the Internet cafes video server, prohibited operators without permission, the film and television works uploaded to the Internet Café LAN server, for consumers to browse, download, play. A reporter visited some internet cafes in Shanghai, found that many internet café owners have begun to prepare for a rainy day, no longer through their own server to provide users with video, only for users to provide "network hospital line" or video site links. "It Times" reporter in the Changning Road, Jiangsu Road, a café found that click on the computer "watch the movie" menu, the screen will appear a number of video site list, such as Cool 6, antennas and so on. Users can log on to the video site to watch the movie, originally placed on the hard disk some of the movies have been deleted. According to a staff of the Internet Café Front desk, "the boss heard that through the Internet Café Server to the users of the film belongs to the infringement, the film association to the Internet bar to collect royalties, let us empty the content." "The staff said that the current to the Internet cafes are mostly game-oriented, watching movies is only a small number of Internet cafes do not have much impact on the passenger flow." And Cao Jia du near the internet café and a "network line" contract, film and television this piece of content to "outsiders" care.　　Network Hospital line will film resources to provide to Internet cafes, internet cafes each year to pay a certain use fee. Will the film and television works directly uploaded to the Internet Café Server is pirated, then the server movie empty, only to provide video links to the site, such practices are infringement? Shanghai Intellectual Property Office of the service Center, Mr. Xu Introduction, internet cafes and related "network hospital line" signed an agreement, if the film resources appear infringement, should be held "network Hospital line" responsibility. "For Internet cafes to provide video site address, if the video site is illegal website, or through the Internet bar links can directly point to a piece of pirated works, Internet cafes also have to bear joint and several liability." ”