Opportunities, restrictions, and challenges for Web TV in China

Xie, Shuguang; Huang, Jing

doi:10.1080/17544750.2010.516576

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“…In December 2009, the state launched a ruthless attack on select famous BitTorrent forums and video websites, such as leading website ‘BT China’, either shutting them down or downsizing them. These BitTorrent forums were accused of being outlaws either because they lacked a licence or were distributing ‘lewd, obscene, and violent content’ (Xie and Huang, 2010: 429). Only major video websites with rich venture capital investments that could afford to buy copyrighted programmes and state-owned Web TV content are now seen as legitimate players in the game.…”

Section: International Venture Capital and State Administrationmentioning

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Competition and collaboration: Chinese video websites, subtitle groups, state regulation and market

2013

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Chinese video websites emerged as early as 2005, when video-sharing websites such as the US-based YouTube were launched and sophisticated P2P streaming software became globally available. There were several hundred private Chinese video websites in their heyday, and most operated without authorisation. By 2012, the number of major private video websites had been drastically reduced to little more than ten, all of which had become large-scale businesses. This study argues that the development of Chinese video websites is a story of struggle and self-invention of identity. These websites have undergone a process of oscillation and transformation between piracy and copyright adherence that has involved grassroots Chinese subtitle groups, state intervention and market competition. There are various levels of competition and collaboration inside private video websites, between private and state-owned video websites and between subtitle groups and video websites. In addition, this study also emphasises fan affection and labour invested by some subtitle groups which ambivalently integrates with and yet transgresses the market strategy of video websites.

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Section: International Venture Capital and State Administrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Competition and collaboration: Chinese video websites, subtitle groups, state regulation and market

2013

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Opportunities, restrictions, and challenges for Web TV in China

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Competition and collaboration: Chinese video websites, subtitle groups, state regulation and market

Competition and collaboration: Chinese video websites, subtitle groups, state regulation and market

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