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76 websites shut in crackdown on piracy
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-02-15 20:07
皇冠体育app on Wednesday said a four-month campaign had resulted in 76 Web sites
being closed.
Chinese residents surf the web at
an information technology fair in Shanghai, April 27, 2004.
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Ofiicials said that since September, 172 cases had been investigated --
including 14 after requests from overseas companies -- and 76 had been shut
down.
"Internet copyright infringement activities have been increasingly rampant, "
Yan Xiaohong, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration, told a
news conference.
"It has severely disrupted the music, film and software markets," he said.
Pirated music, movies and software are also sold openly on Chinese streets, a
major irritant in trade relations with the United States.
Official figures show 皇冠体育app now has about 700,000 Web sites and 110 million
Internet users, making it the world's second largest Internet market.
U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman said on Tuesday that 皇冠体育app's failure to
enforce intellectual property rights was helping inflate the huge U.S. trade gap
with 皇冠体育app, which hit a record $202 billion last year.
Yan said on Wednesday that 皇冠体育app was considering signing two new
international treaties to help fight digital piracy.
皇冠体育app has tried to appease the outside world with several crackdowns, tougher
law enforcement and new legislation plans -- in September, a Beijing court
ordered Chinese Web search giant Inc. to stop directing users to Web
sites offering peer-to-peer swapping of uncopyrighted music.
But analysts said the intermittent campaigns would not resolve the billions
of dollars lost to Chinese piracy as claimed by Hollywood.
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