From Al Jazeera: China has announced a crackdown on consumer piracy, a day before a high-level US trade mission arrives in Beijing. Henry Paulson, the US treasury secretary, is due to begin talks in the Chinese capital on Thursday aimed at tackling some of the main areas of tension in one of the world’s most […]
From AP: China sentenced a man to life in jail on Thursday for running what state media called the country’s biggest ever pirate film disc smuggling ring. A court in southern Guangxi region convicted Lin Yuehua and 11 gang members of buying five production units to make DVDs and VCDs, setting them up in a […]
From AP: Chinese censors have cleared “Casino Royale” to be shown in the country without asking for any changes, a movie executive said Friday. “The film has been approved and no cuts or changes have been requested,” Li Chow, general manager at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International and Sony Pictures Entertainment, said in an e-mail […]
From Financial Times: The home entertainment arm of News Corp film studio Twentieth Century Fox will on Monday announce a distribution partnership with China’s biggest legitimate DVD producer, Zoke Culture Group. The deal marks the first serious effort by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to sell its DVDs in China, a large and fast-growing market […]
From The China Daily: For the second time in two years, China has announced plans to develop its own next-generation DVD standard to break the monopoly of foreign companies and avoid paying heavy licensing fees. If successful, the move could add a new wrinkle to the battle between the competing HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc […]
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