China introduces state licenses for UGC services
Publish videos, including UGC-videos, on the Chinese Internet can only public websites or private sites that are under public administration, and only after receiving a special license. The license must be renewed every three years.
Hosting providers are required to independently remove the "illegal" video from their servers and inform the state about these cases. Such an order was taken by the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Administration of Cinema, Radio and Television. A few days ago, an official document was published on their sites. New rules come into force on January 31, 2008.
It is not yet clear how the new law will be enforced and whether foreign video sites such as YouTube will be forcibly blocked in China.
It should be noted that most of the UGC video hosting sites in China are private companies. With the number of Internet users in the country of 164 million, they have recently become increasingly popular. Now the state is unable to control the "information epidemics" that spread through such sites. On the same Youtube, users upload 10 hours of video every minute , which even the army of censors cannot see. Therefore, to protect the moral health of the nation had to go to extreme measures: the licensing of UGC-hosters.
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via Associated Press
Hosting providers are required to independently remove the "illegal" video from their servers and inform the state about these cases. Such an order was taken by the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Administration of Cinema, Radio and Television. A few days ago, an official document was published on their sites. New rules come into force on January 31, 2008.
It is not yet clear how the new law will be enforced and whether foreign video sites such as YouTube will be forcibly blocked in China.
It should be noted that most of the UGC video hosting sites in China are private companies. With the number of Internet users in the country of 164 million, they have recently become increasingly popular. Now the state is unable to control the "information epidemics" that spread through such sites. On the same Youtube, users upload 10 hours of video every minute , which even the army of censors cannot see. Therefore, to protect the moral health of the nation had to go to extreme measures: the licensing of UGC-hosters.
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via Associated Press
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/18477/
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