The fast-seeding era is finally over.

yesterday, police broke into the Shenzhen China Science and Technology Development Institute Third building of the fast-seeding headquarters office area, the company's CEO Wang did not appear in the scene, on the fast-seeding staff show a Wang mail show, Wang has informed lawyers to come to the company and disclosed that the company's management is currently dealing with the matter.

Where's Wang? There was news that he had received the news in advance to shelter from the shelter, but this statement could not be confirmed. When the journalist first called Wang, the telephone had been replaced by a woman claiming to be her secretary, who said that Wang is now abroad and could not be contacted. Later, Wang through micro-letter to reporters that the police arrival is to the routine inspection, "before the transformation can be for the fast positively this is a good thing."

Wang's micro-letter on the transformation refers to the rapid seeding of the recent "White Wash" campaign: on April 17 , fast-broadcast announced that the announcement of the shutdown of the QVOD server will stop video-on-demand and downloads based on fast-broadcast technology while cleaning up vulgar content and pirated content; Start Business model transformation and the external interpretation of the matter and the recent grim pornography "net net" action.

But yesterday the police action does not appear to be a routine inspection, a source told reporters that the rapid broadcast of the investigation by the Ministry of Public Security and the National Copyright Administration jointly launched, in addition to the fast broadcast an Internet company was focused attention, the Ministry of Public Security on the weekend to organize police into Shenzhen.

But there are media reports that the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau has responded to the media said, "according to the mass report, Shenzhen Fast Broadcasting Technology Co., Ltd. suspected to disseminate obscene information." The statement was later interpreted by some media as the Shenzhen police led the investigation of the fast-sowing.

According to the reporter understands, the fast seeding supports a huge video website industry chain, the domestic only relies on the fast broadcast to do pirated film content the website to have as many million, among them the annual income exceeds tens million yuan's website to close 10, the overall scale about 300 million yuan. And with the rapid-seeding of the sudden wash white, this part of the market will enter a disorderly state.

At present, the webmaster in the fast-sowing industry chain is still waiting for further news, a senior personal webmaster to Tencent Technology revealed that there are some of the station webmaster began to accept the domestic large video site Amnesty way to seek to live, part of the webmaster removed all the ads in the station, more stationmaster is still looking for the replacement of fast sowing.

As for the fast-seeding company itself, there are insiders revealed that over the years, the rapid seeding of its own server has never been a complete source of pirated resources, according to the safe haven principle and the Copyright Bureau on the Internet tort problem in the past, should not have too much problem, but the rapid seeding of the company's overall As once the source of pirated resources VERYCD.

Fast sowing Original sin: piracy and pornography

The fast seeding was established in 2007. In announcing the shutdown of the QVOD server, its support for a variety of video format video player, and video content can be shared among users, and by the user's pursuit. While users benefit from the richness of the resources they share, it also raises questions about the fast-sowing, especially the proliferation of pirated content and the spread of bad information.

Wang previously admitted in the media interview, "early piracy to help quickly develop fast", but he thought "fast sowing no Original sin", many websites use the technology of fast seeding, but did not cooperate with the fast seeding. "The Times have changed, the original fast-sowing mode is doomed to exit the history stage." "Wang to the current rapid-seeding transformation made a note.

But the industry has not given Wang and fast-sowing the opportunity to disguise the problem. November 13, 2013, Youku Potato Group, Sohu Video, Tencent video, music network, such as jointly launched the "China Network video anti-piracy Joint Action", directed at Baidu, fast broadcast and other network video piracy and Hotlinking behavior, and proposed 300 million yuan compensation. and Baidu issued a statement to increase efforts to combat piracy, the rapid broadcast at that time no response.

Regulators then stepped up efforts to trace it. At the end of last year, in a joint launch of the Central four Ministry of the crackdown on cyber piracy "sword Network Action" press conference, Baidu and fast seeding at the same time was named, fined and asked it before February 15 self-examination rectification. However, the regulatory authorities did not relax, so the beginning of the article that scene.

People close to the fast-seeding tell Tencent that the fast-seeding is doing a good job of avoiding risk. The file will be decomposed into several parts, the user only through the fast-broadcast player to complete the first view of the full video, and on the fast-seeding server does not have complete files, which means that the fast-seeding can easily escape from this survey.

A huge underground industry chain

Why is it so powerful? Because the fast-sowing peer-to-peer technology allows small and medium movie stations to consume very little bandwidth, it is possible to see erotic and pirated video directly and smoothly. At the same time, the rapid seeding of the webmaster's cooperation has been maintained an open mind, so many webmasters are more willing to cooperate with the fast-seeding, based on Peer-to-peer service technology, the more participants the faster, so the influence of the rapid seeding has been increasing.

As Wang said, many sites just use the technology of fast seeding, but do not cooperate with fast seeding. Because a fast-seeding web player can be embedded in any page that supports a fast-seeding control, and the page's advertising interests are entirely part of the movie station, many sites have turned to collaborating with other alliances or search engines.

It is understood that if a movie station to do 1 million UV per day, then a year can achieve about 10 million of the income, the current annual profit of tens of millions of film stations about 10, annual income of dozens of to millions of revenue of about dozens of, the entire pirated online video market size of around 300 million yuan.

This is only the case of pirated film stations, and the development of more covert, more powerful money-absorbing pornographic sites is not statistics. Even in the webmaster circle, we are also difficult to glimpse its influence, there are senior webmaster guess, this part of the business every year the overall size of the market should be ordinary pirated video business more than twice times.

In the past few years, really qualified to shake the fast-sowing status of only Baidu audio-visual. Compared with the fast seeding, Baidu audio and video has greater capital strength and brand awareness, while the Baidu Alliance also controls the economic lifeline of small and medium film stations. But it is also in Baidu Audio-visual has a large number of users, caused by the major video site of the collective dissatisfaction, leading to a series of lawsuits.

Subsequently, Baidu announced the abandonment of related business, fast broadcast once again become the industry one elder brother.

The end of the fast sowing time

According to Wang's previous stance, the fast seeding still exists as the player, has its own player, the transmission protocol and the format, can provide the decoding ability, the playback ability and the interactive ability; second, the fast-seeding will focus on buying film copyrights, investing in original web dramas, and will also try to incorporate social and electrical business models into the content.

However, some sources said that the rapid growth of the future direction of development has not made a clear plan, the shutdown of the server is actually a sudden event, the future of the overall development of rapid broadcast is difficult to predict. Once the Pirate Resource Center VERYCD also tried to "wash white" into the video industry, but ultimately rely on the game business survived.

In addition to the fast-seeding company itself, the fast-seeding industry chain webmaster is still waiting for further information. A senior personal webmaster to Tencent Technology revealed that there are some of the station webmaster began to accept the domestic large video site Amnesty way to seek to live, this way will lead to the loss of pirated TV stations more than 50%, but can thoroughly wash their own.

However, the webmaster said that this embedded a variety of legitimate online video resources, the practice of lack of core competitiveness, so many webmasters are still looking for a substitute for fast sowing. According to Tencent Science and technology, there are already two major substitutes have gained a certain influence, respectively, the fast screen and watermelon audio-visual.

The former is a comprehensive desktop management software, but the video is its main function, in Baidu Search "fast Screen", will show that the company has launched a "fast-screen seed search artifact" software, while another watermelon audio-visual and fast-sowing product model is basically the same.

But whether it's a fast screen or a watermelon, limited by the use of people and resources, the current download speed is not up to the level of the fast seeding, the future who can take over the rapid seeding of the Jiangshan is still unknown, but with the strengthening of the supervision of the relevant departments, the future of this market shrinkage or a foregone conclusion, an era has already ended.