China Restricts Internet Video to State-Controlled CompaniesAuthored by Scott Goldberg on January 3, 2008 - 3:48am.
No official word yet on how sites like YouTube and independently-run Chinese internet video providers will be affected.
The system for gaining government approval will be arduous: Video sites must obtain permits, and the applicants must be either state-owned or state-controlled companies. YouTube, in other words, is likely to suffer a blackout in China.
The AP says that Chinafilm.com, run by the state-controlled China Film Group, reports that the “majority” of internet video providers in China are private.
"Those who provide internet video services should insist on serving the people, serve socialism ... and abide by the moral code of socialism," Chinafilm.com quotes the rules as saying.
Related: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080103/china_internet_video.html?.v=7 |
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