Western countries, with US being the representative, have always been criticizing China on its control of copyright cover the Internet. However, China hit back hard recently against US criticism of the nation’s controls over the Internet, announcing that Washington’s push against online censorship could harm the relations between the two big powers.
Torrent search engines, from which people can download music, TV shows and movies for free, is playing a key role in the issue.
These days, in an approach to reorganize the torrent search engines in the nation and highlight the importance of audio-visual broadcasting license for a website, the Chinese authority has made some big moves. State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has shut down the largest BitTorrent website—BTChina as well as another popular media sharing site VeryCD.com due to their copyright crackdown. This created a buzz among the Chinese netizens as both sites are claimed to be non-commercial sites and have millions of users across the country.
This approach indicates the dedication of the Chinese authority in beating the digital-video-disc piracy, and regulating the operation of many various online media resources. It makes a positive response to all the criticism over copyrights issues from Western countries. But meantime, China is taking the risks of being judged for its high pressure policy.