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China will stop illegal broadcasts during Games
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by jessica.lam | July 8, 2008 at 11:15 am
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Thinking of taking videos with your knock-off iPhone of Olympic events? Think again.
Authorities are determined to prevent unauthorized companies and individuals from broadcasting Olympic events, an official from the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) said Monday.
"No website, mobile phone platform or individual is permitted to transmit audio and video information regarding the Beijing Olympic Games or events within the mainland without a copyright or copyright holders' authorizations," Xu Chao, deputy director of the copyright management department of the NCAC, told a press conference in Beijing.
Pomoho.com was banned last week from illegally webcasting Beijing Olympics webcasts. It was the first instance of Chinese copyright authorities' stopping illegal Olympic transmissions.
Penalties including warnings, orders to delete unlicensed content, fines, the shutting down of servers and confiscation of facilities and equipment, Xu said.
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at 17:26 on July 8th, 2008
What are you free to do in China without written permission?
Totalitarianism lives.
at 16:04 on July 10th, 2008
Wow. Total technological lockdown. So much for blogging the Olympics...
at 16:59 on July 10th, 2008
In the Beijing airport, there were 3 or 4 different shops selling Olympic merchandise in June 2008. The mascots, 5 fuwa, represent the 5 colors in the Olympic rings and the 5 elements. I think they're the best Olmpic mascots yet. Fuwa merchandise was everywhere.
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at 19:19 on July 10th, 2008
wow, no censorship! Going to protect their copyrights, but see no problem in stealing everyone else's. What a challenge to the world's hackers! forget Microsoft....
at 19:49 on July 10th, 2008
wow, no censorship! Going to protect their copyrights, but see no problem in stealing everyone else's. What a challenge to the world's hackers! forget Microsoft....
at 00:21 on July 11th, 2008
I was there about a month ago .... can't see how they're going to reduce this level of pollution in time for the games!
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at 01:18 on July 11th, 2008
I'm in Beijing now... the pollution is still terrible.
at 08:29 on July 11th, 2008
jay.el, I like this story. It's good stuff. As Artie Johnson(for us oldsters) used to say, "Very Interesting."
at 01:59 on July 12th, 2008
People crowding outside a television to watch the Olympic torch passing in Xi'an on July 4, 2008.
Unless you started staking out a watch-point along the torch route that day at 6 A.M., it was impossible to catch a glimpse of the real torch passing. So many people! So much confusion!
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at 01:35 on July 14th, 2008
In Hong Kong, on the Waterfront in Kowloon, sculptures representing the symbols of the Olympic Games are represented practicing olymic sports. At night, they are enlightened.
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at 23:41 on July 22nd, 2008
The fuwah are everywhere. I snapped these in the lobby of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, about 6 ft each.
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