1,600 unauthorized websites air opening gala
17/8/2008 11:19
The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was carried by more
than 1,600 unauthorized websites from Aug. 9 to 11, of which 85 percent were
found in developed countries, said a Chinese official yesterday.
Yan
Xiaohong, vice minister of the National Copyright Administration of China
(NCAC), said the Chinese organizer and the International Olympic Committee had
monitored the unauthorized broadcast after the opening ceremony. Besides
overseas unauthorized websites, more than 100 websites in China were found.
"For those found in China, we ordered them to eliminate the unauthorized
content immediately. Meanwhile, the telecom regulatory authorities kept a close
watch on them," said Xu Chao, a NCAC official.
Xu said most websites
eliminated the unauthorized content on the NCAC alert. But there were illegal
websites which did not act according to the requirement.
These illegal
websites, which were not registered with Chinese authorities, were shut down in
line with Chinese laws. But the number of websites which had been shut down was
"very small".
For those overseas websites, the NCAC had no right to shut
them down but blocked unauthorized content.
"Our objective was to
eliminate unauthorized content, not to punish the websites. Whether they will be
fined would be judged case by case," he said.
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