I have heared about the forthcoming shut down of all P2P and BT websites here in China. I just don’t realize it comes so quickly unitl I find out that VERY CD, a website that thousands of users share their digital resourse on, was cracked down today. The authority justifies their actions on the grounds of protecting copyrighted products and controling the widespread piratic and illegal digital resource.
From my point of view, this bold and imprudent action might act as just opposite as the authority expects. Admittedly, some of the internet users might turn to copyrighted movies or softwares. But considering the high price of those products, I would not call it majority. As a result, most of the internet users here in China who used to download digital resource with P2P or BT via websites like Verycd will probably turn to piratic contents，which in turn would definitely prosper the piratic industry.
In fact, as far as I know, many web users consider VERY CD as their precious resource website, where you can find from exotic tv series and movies with chinese and english subtitles to professional softwares, etc. Yes, I admit it might need some regulations to protect the copyright of those digital resource. However, I would not call simply shut down the website as a progress action. Instead, related authority and the big players in this industry are well-advised to sit down together and work out a plan to progress and normalize this business, which however is unthinkable here with the authority’s proliferated bureaucracy. Moreover, the real purpose of this action might be controlling the alleged “illegal” content, oversea TV series and movies notably. So there is no room to compromise for the authority.
What leaves me to do right now is just mourning. Now I would not surprise if someone here is bored to death one day.
good essay, and you forgot one thing, we can’t get most digit content in normal channel
I am very sad right now, reading comments about this action online. There are a great deal of resource for study on very cd. Even the softwares that i am using in the company are from very cd. You can only get those advanced professional softwares there, let alone american tv series and my favoriate bbc documentaries.
there are so many ways can download good resource if VeryCD is never come back, although not convenient and there are still some ways