Comments on: China Stiffens Penalties for Online Piracy http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dmablog/2006/05/30/china-stiffens-penalties-for-online-piracy/ The blog of the Digital Media in Asia Project at Harvard Law School\'s Berkman Center for Internet & Society Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:04:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: political forums http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dmablog/2006/05/30/china-stiffens-penalties-for-online-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-504 political forums Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:04:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dmablog/2006/05/30/china-stiffens-penalties-for-online-p#comment-504 In response to Denis Michael, Google is actively collaborating in providing software that filters out terms like "democracy" and probably other terms like "free speech" "human rights" "Tibet" etc. China is a massively profitable market and Google has chosen to collaborate with the CCP's objectives of curtailing free speech in order to have access to that market. In response to Denis Michael, Google is actively collaborating in providing software that filters out terms like “democracy” and probably other terms like “free speech” “human rights” “Tibet” etc. China is a massively profitable market and Google has chosen to collaborate with the CCP’s objectives of curtailing free speech in order to have access to that market.

]]> By: political forums http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dmablog/2006/05/30/china-stiffens-penalties-for-online-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-503 political forums Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:00:58 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dmablog/2006/05/30/china-stiffens-penalties-for-online-p#comment-503 One really has to think about what other possible benefits the CCP might get from cracking down on piracy. I think that a lot of these attempts to crack down on bootlegging are just superficial. Chinese bootlegging is rife. I know Chinese people who routinely get bootlegged movies at amazing speed, sometimes within weeks after a movie is released in theaters. I suspect that the real interest the CCP has in doing this is to control the media, under the guise of "protecting decency" and "fighting piracy." My site, which is a general political forum was actually banned in China from what I've heard. We have no content on our site that are tirades against China or long articles against China. It's just that people speak the truth about how China controls the media and is a totalitarian regime, and the forum is a free environment to say whatever you want. That's good enough reason for it to be banned I guess. The CCP seems to want control over easily accessible media. One really has to think about what other possible benefits the CCP might get from cracking down on piracy. I think that a lot of these attempts to crack down on bootlegging are just superficial. Chinese bootlegging is rife. I know Chinese people who routinely get bootlegged movies at amazing speed, sometimes within weeks after a movie is released in theaters.

I suspect that the real interest the CCP has in doing this is to control the media, under the guise of “protecting decency” and “fighting piracy.” My site, which is a general political forum was actually banned in China from what I’ve heard. We have no content on our site that are tirades against China or long articles against China. It’s just that people speak the truth about how China controls the media and is a totalitarian regime, and the forum is a free environment to say whatever you want. That’s good enough reason for it to be banned I guess.

The CCP seems to want control over easily accessible media.

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