Rampant Piracy on E-Commerce Platforms

Rampant Piracy on E-Commerce Platforms

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Rampant piracy of Spring Festival blockbusters including the Wandering Earth has drawn wide attention.

Illegal download links are available on the Internet. Illegal download resources have been up for sale on Chinese e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Idlefish and social media platforms like Weibo and Wechat.

According to the reporter, it’s not difficult to find Weibo posts or comments which imply that the provider has numerous resources which are available if the users can contact them through private message.

The provider then sent a Wechat QR code and said that they can further contact through Wechat. After adding friends, the reporter found that his moments were all about introduction of films or TV series and prices were marked behind.

A film is priced at RMB 5, a trilogy priced at RMB 8 and even the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films only cost 25 Yuan.

There are two kinds of providers on Wechat. Some share resources through public accounts, for example, users can search for resources of newest movies, TV series and shows and can watch the videos online or save them in the Baidu Cloud Storage. All these videos are free of charge. Besides, these public accounts also provide VIP accounts of video platforms including Tencent, Mangguo TV and iQIYI with lower prices.

Others share download links and passwords through personal Wechat messages.

Some video platforms offer free movies, TV series, animations and shows, many of which contain porn video ads.

 

 

May 17, 2019

Source: Legal Daily

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