Media regulation
Tudou: online video problemsPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Rumors of its death greatly exaggerated? Last night Chinese language portal Netease published an article saying that SARFT had made use of the new online video regulations and ordered popular Chinese video sharing website Tudou to cease operations. The story has been picked up by several bloggers and made its way into English on Fons Tuinstra's blog and on Pacific Epoch, an investment information service. According to yet another blog post on TechBlog86, the news was also published on Sohu.com. The article on Netease seems to have been deleted, but Sohu still has the story (in Chinese). Tudou.com is still working, as you can see from the Danwei TV video above. One Danwei source says that the shutdown story is a vicious rumor started by a competitor website. Update: Beijing Business Today (via Hexun) reports that Tudou is denying the entire thing: "Tudou has received no such document," said one source with the company. And in regard to the CCTV deal, another source said, "It's not convenient to discuss this now; we will make a public announcement in a while." Update 2: The Chinese language report is still online at CE.cn, whilst consulting firm Marbridge yesterday reported the following in its daily newsletter:
Your correspondent is inclined to think this is just a shake down for penalty fees, and a shot across the bows of all the video sites to warn them that big brother SARFT is watching. The accusations of pornographic content are absurd: Tudou is one of the least salacious video hosts out there. Lots of the smaller ones seem to be trying to compete by pushing the boundaries of what's permitted, but Tudou and the other big ones don't have the same sexy, sexy movies. Copyright infringement's a different story, but there again, Tudou is no worse than any of the others. |
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Comments on Tudou: online video problems
Retweet: TechCrunch going Chinese? Please mind the gap between techblog86 and TechCrunch. ;-) Thanks...
lol. what is TechCrunch86 ?
Thanks, corrected to Techblog86.
在搜狐的评论里很多人支持土豆呢--
政府里这些混蛋,有些无奈了。
不过,国内媒体关注不太多呀
Tr. [Lots of people are supporting Tudou in the Sohu BBS - those government bastards must be kind of frustrated. However, the domestic media hasn't been paying much attention. --]
Will it be up and running again soon?
seems to be down now - http://61.164.47.193/
So.. are they gonna fix the glitch?
no, i loved that site
tudou will come back soon
well, I remember seeing Tudou saying that the website was moving its servers.
*sign*, people work so hard to make sure everything is censored here.