Hollywood studios unite against Chinese movie site
One of China’s largest pay-per-view video websites has been hit with piracy lawsuits from five major US film companies. Representatives of 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney, Paramount, Columbia Pictures and Universal have filed lawsuits in China against Jeboo.com. The suit alleges that the Chinese firm distributed several popular movies without permission. Jeboo representatives said in statements to local media today that the charges were “inconsistent with the facts”, and claimed that the studios were probably targeting the wrong company. Legal filings presented to a court in Shanghai also name an internet café in the city where members of the public allegedly downloaded or viewed the movies.
The court will begin hearing the case on 29 November, according to the state-controlled Xinhua news agency. The studios are seeking an apology, together with damages and costs exceeding $430,000 from Jeboo and the internet café. Local press reports speculated that the naming of only one internet café was likely to be a symbolic measure that could help the studios to establish a clear chain of supporting evidence pointing at Jeboo. China has more than 130,000 licensed and unlicensed internet cafés, according to various estimates. Chinese internet is still pretty wild in terms of piracy and I guess there’s almost no domestic pressure from antipiracy organizations, so someone from abroad had to step in…
Source: Vnunet
Comments(27)
I doubt China will bend to their will. Their government is quite stubborn.
China oppress their public and abuse human rights …….. I can’t see them being to bothered about apologises to Hollywood and any fines. They have a stockpile of US dollars to them this must be peanuts.
Heheh
Jebo is f*ck on serbian
F*ck all Serbian
if there was a movie about the massacre on tianamen square, how fast would this download be censored by the chinese government?
very fast indeed. damn pinkos!
China? Copyright law violations?
That NEVER happens.
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Populated lol if only they would chill out a bit id prob stop ripping them off.Who cares what these large companys do piracy is here to stay so feck’em all they can tighten there grip on mainstream society but being against the people and fecking them over is a really bad idea when they gonna get that into there thick dollar minded skulls.
chill out guys…
all these ppl at rlslog have done is quote this source..
(http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2204280/china-video-site-sued)
and as far as comments about oppressing human rights etc is concerned, they still think india is a land of snake charmers….so its quite evident,people dont really know what are the ground realities in other countries…
read this on the same page…..interesting story
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203803/china-cleared-leading-ip-theft
There’s like 1 absolute dumbass posing as like 5 ppl in here making several dumber than dirt posts.
GTFO?
are these real chinese speaking or white peeps actin like chinese. either way i’m hungry. KUNG POWWWWWW CHICKEN!
Fukking RIAA, even when they are PAYING to view the movies the wankers want to clamp down coz its not from the movie studios.
Long live torrents !!!! Fukk the RIAA and all the others !
P2P rulez, USA sux Ballz. Sort ya fukk writers strike out! muahahahaaha u have thus so far failed in everthing you attempt.
@19 too right, -theyre making a good stab at world domination though -bastards
@13 Chairman_Slit
how will you f*ck with a tiny d!ck,a$$wipe?
Not only are your d!cks small,even chinese girls have tiny tits.Their chests are as flat as a wall,lol!!
So get your tiny d!cks and tits off tibet,chinese f*ckface.
(-i-)
Chinese are cheap anyway.
I don’t think anyone who works for this site is insulting china. When it comes to the internet in China, it’s censored, end of, there can be no arguments there, just look at the whole google china thing. Second of all, as one person above said, they’re quoting another site, thirdly, this makes a change, usualy people on here are banging on about how much America sucks. Lets face it, everyone hates everyone.
The Red Dragon will never bow to Hollywood.
The chinese are one of the cruelest races on the planet, remember that video on inhumanity.com of a town burning a bear alive and all the yellow people claping and cheering. sick
“works for this site”? wtf are you talking about. i doubt they are getting paid or else they would probably be fired. lol
btw the rest of you stop constantly b!tching about the same things in every d@mn release on rlslog
China is the model society….USA Secretly wants to be just like them. The New World Order is upon us. As Alex Jones says “The answer to 1984 is 1776″ You guys should check out his latest documentary – “Endgam3 – Blueprint for Global Enslavement.” scary stuff. Anyhow, they talk about China having more awards from the united nations for thier government policies, than any other nation. That struck me as odd…
@19
Pakistani villagers set a live bear on fire, not chinese
http://vidmax.com/index.php/videos/view/4474
please make yourself clear before showing off your stupidity.
@23
Yeah sorry about that, the video has the wrong label(calls them chinese) on the inhumanity.com site.
chinese or pakistani,whats the difference anyways?
Both are run by dictators
chinese or pakistani,whats the difference anyways?
Both are run by dictators n violate human rights too.
@25, 26
agree and disagree.
let’s say “americans or french, whats the difference anyways?”
i’m sure it would upset a lot of people…
And about the human rights things, don’t forget they are still “developing” countries. Give them time and let them sort things out, they will change eventually (look at russia and mideastern europe now).
just my 2 cents…
@23
Uhmm.. It’s not even pakis…. Maybe you should read up before you go calling other people idiots – Though I agree that anybody mistaking that language for chinese are idiots.
I thought Desi would comment this one…