It claims that in the 18 to 35 year old bracket, 50.5% watch movies illegally online, each averaging 31.1 movies per year.Over the years, there have been a lot of great torrent sites where you could easily download movies, TV shows, music, games, and a lot of other content.īut due to strong surveillance from governments and internet service providers, many torrenting sites couldn’t stand the test of time: They got blocked.
Some Internet cafes themselves will also be sued.Īccording to CFCPA, movie piracy on the Internet is rampant in China. “In such circumstances, anti-piracy actions are even more important.”Īfter ignoring to requests to cease their activities, the operators of two further websites, and, are also being sued by CFCPA for allegedly providing movies and download services to Internet cafes. “In the first half of this year 110 Chinese-language films were released in China, but only 13 made money, that means 90% of the films are losing money”, he explained. The actual court claim against Ver圜D is more modest – 11.85 million yuan ($1.73m) By May 5th it had been downloaded 10,000,000 times.Īn Xiaofen said that he expected that around one third of those downloads equate to actual lost sales which meant his company had lost around 100 million yuan ($14.76m). President of DIM, An Xiaofen, said that the movie was made available via Ver圜D just a week after its release in late April. Along with several other sites, Ver圜D is now being sued for copyright infringement, specifically for providing links to the recently released martial arts movie, Ip Man 2.ĭuring a press conference the China Film Copyright Protection Association (CFCPA) announced that together with Dasheng International Media (DIM), the studio that owns the rights to Ip Man 2, it has filed a lawsuit against Ver圜D in the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People’s Court. Now, rather than receiving unwanted attention from the authorities, the site has become the target of a very rare event in China. However, in terms of linking to mainstream copyright movies, it carried on its business as usual. One file-sharing site, Ver圜D, China’s biggest eDonkey links site, escaped closure but did receive stern warnings. In 20 the Chinese authorities did make some moves against several file-sharing sites, although this was mainly due to them being unlicensed or offering ‘horrific’ or pornographic videos. Online piracy is rampant in the country and is quickly becoming a national pastime among its youth. Of all the major industrialized countries in the world, China stands out as a leader in doing very little about intellectual property infringement.
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