Two original sins of "rogue fast sowing": pornography and piracy

Summary: When tens of thousands of your viewing process by the fast-seeding is spoiled into three steps: Search the movie, click on the website, fast playback, artifact achievement legend. This is the fast-seeding company's evaluation of the fast-seeding software it has developed. Now, the artifact of this legendary achievement is

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"When tens of thousands of your viewing process has been" spoiled "into three steps: Search the movie, click on the website, Fast play, ' artifact ' achievement legend. ”

This is the fast-seeding company's evaluation of the fast-seeding software it has developed.

Now, this "achievement legend" of the "artifact" in the relevant laws and regulations on the road, the complete end.

August 8, Shenzhen Fast Broadcasting Technology Co., Ltd. legal representative and general manager Wang ended 110 days of escape abroad, was arrested by law. Burdened with "piracy" and "pornography" the original Sin "fast seeding", after all, "rogue" software label, but also escape the law of sanctions.

Savage Development

A widely circulated resume shows that Wang March 12, 1980 was born in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, and graduated from Nanjing University of Posts and telecommunications.

At the end of 1999, Wang to Shenzhen, he joined the Shenzhen Information Co., Ltd., as deputy general manager, responsible for technology research and development. 3 years later, Wang set up Shenzhen Software Co., Ltd., the first time to start a business.

The company, which makes music-switching software, has more than 80 employees at the top of the boom, but eventually collapsed in 2005.

During the first venture, Wang met the founder of the Grand Network company Chen. It is this reason, in the point of the collapse of the stone company, Wang to enter the grand, as a Department assistant director, leading the "grand box" research and development.

However, only 1 years, the "Grand Box" project stopped short, Wang had to return to the entrepreneurial army.

Wang began his second venture in 2007 in a residential house with only more than 10 square meters in Shenzhen.

This time, Wang his entrepreneurial direction to develop a video playback software, and eventually its Chinese name as "fast seeding."

This "quick" word, for Wang and his company after the barbaric development of the foreshadowing.

The "fast-seeding" is derived from its application to Peer-to-peer technology.

In March 2000, Justin Frankel, who works in AOL, worked with another engineer, Tom Pepper, on the Internet to publish the original code of the world's first Peer-to-peer (Peer-to-peer, point-to-point) archive-switching software Gnutella.

In those days, Peer-to-peer did not receive much attention due to the impact of the bubble economy. Until 5 years later, the silence of a long period of peer-to-peer suddenly erupted, as if to become music, movies, games synonymous with free download.

Peer-to-peer technology quickly in the field of network film and television resources to be hot--through this technology on demand and download video, can reduce bandwidth consumption to reduce enterprise costs.

In the house the second pioneering Wang, hooked on the Peer-to-peer technology of the Express, has developed a "fast-seeding" server Software and "fast-seeding" Web page player. This system has brought great benefits to the fast-seeding company. It is said that 2011 years later, "fast seeding" has become the national market share the first player. As of September 2012, the total installation of "fast seeding" has exceeded 300 million, and by the June of this year, the number of Chinese netizens was 538 million.

Rogue logic

Feng, who works for a network company in Beijing, has been using fast-seeding software for years, and his tablet has installed a software called "fast-seeding interactive browsing".

The software includes two functions, push-push and radar. After the user opens the software, can see the movie which the nearby Netizen computer stores. "Most of them are pornographic movies. "Feng said.

This April, the "push" and "radar" functions were stopped by the fast-seeding company.

Software platform and content separation mode, so that "fast-seeding" from the date of the line, with the infringement of film and television works copyright and for pornographic films to provide a platform for the nature of transmission.

Although some other playback software has also encountered copyright litigation, on the platform of these playback software, at least a part of the video is legal copyright, software developers can achieve the content of the gatekeeper. and "Fast seeding" does not have its own content gatekeeper system, it can not confirm its own video play is legitimate. This allows the "fast seeding" from the beginning to the end can not get rid of "piracy" and "pornography" these two main sins.

As for "Original Sin", Wang has a set of rogue logic. Earlier in an interview, he once said: "The technology of the products made by the number of the" root of the original sin, "fast-seeding" is no exception. ”

Wang attributed this to the desire for survival in the early stages of entrepreneurship and even described the period as a "jungle stage". This means that he is not unaware of the "fast-sowing" barbaric path of development, but let it evolve.

Such development thinking, let "fast sowing" quickly become the target of criticism. 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 "Fast broadcast" and other network video piracy and Hotlinking behavior, and proposed 300 million yuan compensation.

At the end of 2013, the State Copyright administration decided that the fast-seeding company constituted the piracy fact, issued a 250,000-dollar ticket and ordered "fast sowing" to stop the infringement. At the same time, the Central four Ministerial committee launched a joint crackdown on cyber piracy "sword Network Action" press conference, the fast-seeding company was also named.

The fast-seeding company has not made a public response. Such "rogue" logic from Wang once said the word can be found, "always have someone to do something that does not look very beautiful things."

Technical Veil

Wang's microblog is called "the fast-seeding blacksmith". In the media interview, he said: "Maybe I will only be a product manager for a lifetime, as long as there is technological innovation I will study, fun on the line." ”

This kind of "technical thinking" becomes the shield of Wang, he interprets everything he admits of "original sin" with "technological innovation".

"We have not been black, how to wash the white say?" "Wang has repeatedly peddled his view that technology is neutral, and the" fast-seeding "player offers only one technique for video playback. At this point, "fast-seeding" player and the nature of the browser, "Users open the yellow Web site also need to use the browser, why no one accused the browser also involved in yellow"?

The absurdity of the idea of covering up illegal facts with technical veils has long opinion.

In the network dissemination of the rules have the so-called "safe haven principle", in short is the network service provider if only provides the technology, the platform does not provide the content, then when the infringement occurs, so long as the infringement person's notice promptly removes the content not to undertake the tort responsibility.

The rule makers already know that the "safe haven principle" could be abused. As a result, when some lawbreakers talk about "safe haven", they don't realize that a "red flag" can away all kinds of camouflage. This is the network of "red flag principle", that is, if the infringement of the facts like a red flag, even ordinary people can be a glance, then even without notice, the network service providers can not pretend to be invisible to shirk responsibility.

Over the years, the "fast seeding" to do only the technology not to ask the content as an excuse for the barbaric development, think of wandering in the gray area no one can do. In fact, there is never a gray area, "fast seeding" the path of walking, is the legal red line.

Final performance

Internet expert Lanchy Once thought, "The fast seeding" actually has had the qiantouming opportunity, but because has the lucky mentality, it still embarked on the no return.

This statement can be from the "fast-seeding" some of the business adjustment to be confirmed.

In the 2012, Wang tried to get rid of the two original sins of "fast seeding"-"piracy" and "pornography". "Fast Seeding" in 2012 launched a bad information reporting system, trying to block the source of undesirable content, but Wang also admitted that "the model itself is problematic ... cannot be fundamentally addressed. "

Despite Wang's repeated emphasis on transition, the fact is that "fast seeding" has been slow to give up peer-to-peer technology. Its roots are clearly in the interests.

Wang and his fast-seeding company were really aware of the crisis, on April 13, 2014. This day, the national "pornography" office, such as the joint release of the "crackdown on online obscene pornographic information special action announcement." "Bulletin" clearly proposed to the Internet obscene pornographic information to carry out a comprehensive inventory, the law of the production of obscene pornographic information enterprises and personnel, law enforcement departments once verified, that is penalties.

Compared to prior to the State Copyright administration to identify the infringement of the "lose", Wang and fast-seeding company this time some worried.

April 15 17:55, "fast broadcast" official Weibo released a message: "In order to maintain a good network environment, protect the interests of the vast number of video users, ' Fast broadcast ' hereby held a reward report feedback activities!" All about pornography, violence, reactionary, viruses, such as the use of ' fast seeding ' under the name of the operation of the bad Web site can be reported feedback and forwarding this post, have the opportunity to obtain a fast-broadcast VIP membership card, no time limit, all the year round. ”

The next day around six o'clock in the evening, "fast seeding" to "maintenance upgrades", hastily closed the "fast-seeding" software "push" and "radar" function.

Despite these superficial developments, the development of the situation clearly made Wang think it was not enough. April 16 around 21:30, the fast-seeding company in micro-blog again issued a notice, said: "Since March 2014, ' fast seeding ' has started a comprehensive transformation of business model, from the technical transformation of original authentic content." At present, mainly in the preparation of three aspects, the first is the purchase of film and television domain name, the second is to cloud sail search and fast broadcast entertainment in the wind vane of all technical shielding, the third is not less than 100 million yuan in the next year to buy copyright, not less than 30 million to support domestic micro-drama innovation ”

On the same day, "fast seeding" also sent a letter to the user "to dig the lungs." In the letter, "fast sowing" admits that "vulgar content and copyright issues have always been the original sin we bear."

In this letter, the fast-seeding company decided to shut down the QVOD server, stop video on demand and download based on "Fast seeding" technology, and announce that "from this moment on, the previous ' fast-seeding mode ' was completely terminated."

In order to escape the blow, Wang in the April 18 media interview also said, "No matter how big the loss, even if the flow fell to 0, we will unswervingly transition."

The transformation of the statement of a more resolute than a, but these superficial words are not enough to change the accumulated over the years of illegal facts.

The end of "Fast seeding"

The topic of "fast sowing" on the internet has not ended with the Wang "unwavering transformation".

April 22 11 o'clock, Weibo began to circulate such a message: "Fast broadcast" dissemination of obscene information was seized.

This information was finally confirmed by the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau: According to the mass report, Shenzhen Fast Broadcasting Technology Co., Ltd. suspected of disseminating obscene information.

"Fast Seeding" issued an official microblog response said the company is operating normally. Fast-seeding CEO Wang also used micro-letter response to the media: "Nothing, we do not worry." ”

However, the fact is not as Wang said.

May 15, the national "Pornography" office bulletin: After investigation confirmed that the fast-seeding company in the provision of Internet Information services, the existence of the dissemination of obscene pornographic behavior, and serious circumstances.

A few days later, the Shenzhen market supervision authority to the fast-seeding company to serve the proposed administrative penalty hearing notice, proposed to the fast-sowing company fined 260 million yuan, the reason is preliminary determination of its suspected piracy.

The two sins of "pornography" and "piracy" are like two swords hanging on the head of the fast-seeding, and now both fall.

May 17, "Fast broadcast" issued an apology statement, said the survey found in the "fast-seeding" player in the process of providing services to users in the course of the suspected spread of obscene, pornographic content of information is deeply ashamed.

At this point, the "fast seeding" after the scenery Infinite began to quiet. Until August 15, another message came to remind people of "fast seeding" again.

August 15, the national "pornography" office released a message that the Shenzhen Rapid Broadcasting Technology Co., Ltd. online dissemination of obscene pornographic information on the main criminal suspects, fast-seeding company legal representative and general manager Wang has been arrested on August 8 in accordance with the law.

Until this time, people just know, in the disappearance of 110 days, Wang fled to the outside. Police chase the Internet at the same time, through Interpol issued a red APB. August 7, Wang was intercepted by the relevant authorities of the country when he entered a country from abroad. The next day, our public security organs will wang escort home.

At this point Wang can not find the pretext of technology, in the face of the law, he admitted that the fast-seeding company server has a large number of pornographic video, but for profit and laissez-faire.

The past is not like smoke. In the fall of this year, the man who claims to be "only concerned about technology" has been torn off from disguise. His fate is left to the court to make his final judgment, but the incident is enough to alarm the people who fantasize about the "shelter" of the Internet.