Multiple sources have confirmed that China has openly threatened anyone who reuses or rebroadcasts the Beijing Olympics. Chinese officials publicly stated they will punish Internet Web sites, Re-broadcasters and other new media that replay the 2008 Olympic Games and related events without the authorization of state-run China Central Television.
Xu Chao, deputy director of the Copyright Management Division in the State Copyright Bureau said during the Olympic Games, many unauthorized broadcasts will flood into the market. We should initiate an attack against broadcast piracy. Xu went on to discuss some of their anti-piracy measures including a public hotline for reporting illegal broadcasting through the State Copyright Bureau website or by dialing the “12390” anti-piracy hotline to collaborate with the government. People involved will be rewarded for the reports once the report is found to be true.
The International Olympic Committee granted CCTV the new media broadcast rights for the summer games exclusively. We were unable to obtain their exact definition of new media broadcast. However, in a statement by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the National Copyright Administration and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, they said Web sites and mobile platforms using Olympic broadcast signals without getting permission from the CCTV will be punished.
They went on to say that Web sites may be shut down if they carry the events illegally. Olympics coverage is big business. The 2008 Summer Games in Beijing will mark the arrival of streaming content as a viable alternative to the Olympics television broadcast. Online video streaming is attracting an increasing share of ad spending and many believe is the future of advertising. NBCOlympics.com will offer 4,400 hours of on-demand streaming content plus 2,200 hours of live programming, making the Beijing Olympics the largest streaming media project to date. There is little doubt that carbon copies of the streamed media will be available from numerous sources on the web and in the physical world. So it appears China has a big challenge ahead.
Are they really threatening cyber attacks on public companies, private industry and individuals? That is the way one Cyber Security Expert we spoke to interpreted it. Only time will tell. What if a company in the United States, or any other country, is attacked? How will the government respond? One thing for sure, this is a sign of things to come.
Facts:
The Olympics have become a very, very big business. Worldwide media rights to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing sold for $1.7 billion, with NBC Universal paying $894 million for the U.S. media rights alone.
China Central Television (CCTV) said that Web sites may be shut down if they carry the events illegally. In addition, a Chinese Government spokesperson said Any individual without authorization who uploads recorded Olympic events or pirated Olympics video broadcasting websites will face up to 100,000 RMB in penalties.
The statement in its entirety can be found here.
– Kevin Coleman
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If only China took other countries IP this seriously…
the tighter your hold, the more galaxies will slip through your fingers…. or something like that.
good luck with that china. on the other hand, if china follows up, people will realize the threat of cyber attack and maybe we will be more prepared.
You know I bet the world of hackers that are trolling about near sites like youtube are probably sitting there now going, hmm, I can have fun with this one. Watch the Chinese will probably get hacked themselves if they carry out any attacks.
I smell a challenge….
THEY’VE GOT BALLS! Of all the people to cry and threaten about counterfeiting anything much less content that belongs to the world.
If they take any site down – I hope the international hackercommunity responds with a Vengeance !
Yeah, since when does China care about intellectual property?
How in the world did China get to host the Olympics anyways? They are one of the worlds biggest human rights abusers. What, will Iran host the next one???
And the fact that they are comfortable to make such a threat just solidifies their cyberwar stance…
I think the US should put up a dummy site full of Olympic content just to track the attacks…
It is strange that the Chinese leadership is now publicly flaunting its cyber capabilities. Clearly, they have possessed these capabilities for quite some time but have remained fairly quiet about their capabilities. Why escalate?
Hey Kevin – so are you going to come out of retirement as a hacker to lead the charge? We could use ya!
As much as China have no respect for any ones copy rights, I say why should anyone respect theirs. Play it all over tge world and let them see how they hurt others by not respecting their copy rights.
Wish 2008 Olympic games shows a powerful china to the world,it is worth to expecting
soo.. China want to shut russian and Us sites down? good luck with that!
Using the Olympic logo on your blog? You’ve just made their list.
Deja vu. The 1936 Nazi Olympics = 2008 Commie Olympics. Maybe a reborn Jesse Owens will take down all nascent Master Race commie Chinese comers?
No problem; don’t watch. And let the Networks know, too.
Does anyone else get the feeling these Games are just one big ad for Mainland Chinese government paranoia? I have never seen a national government clamp down on it’s own people or makes so many threats over the Olympics. Even when the Soviets hosted the 1980 Olympics they weren’t nearly this bad. They understood they would have to relax alot of rules while the international community is looking at them, and I don’t the Mainland Chinese Government gets that. It always amazes me that this government can go around victimizing people one minute and then play the innocent victim the next minute if anyone says “boo” to them. $5 says they invade Taiwan by the end of 2010, I don’t trust these clowns.
There are legal ways to enforce IP rights and then there are ways thugs use. Hacking and taking down web sites do not fall into the normal legal ways the world deals with theft of IP!
I hadn’t planned to watch the debacle anyway. The modern Olympics is just another MONEY MAKER only with an international flavor. After they were here in 96 I found that the majority of those in charge were elitest, nose in the air, considered themselves above all others, and demanded not only preferential treatment but to be treated as GODS.
The most dangerous threat towards us from China is through their products sold through Walmart.Their products have maimed & killed so many innocent civilian non-combatants that China should be charged with war crimes.
Oh yeah,Walmart should also be held complicit & also charged with war crimes & crimes against humanity along with China.Those lead painted toys,tainted pet food & toothpaste,contaminated food products,& exploding tires are weapons of mass destruction.
The Olympics in China…
Well the Olympic rings do kinda look like leg irons…
I just wonder if they are going to include any of the local events, like tank dodging in Tiananmen Square… The guys with bayonets will add a whole new degree of difficulty for the foreign competitors…
links to the comment below:
Bruce Schneider on Chinese hackers:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/chinese_cyber_a.html
CSM on U.S. laptop searches:
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/07/10/us-defends-laptop-searches-at-the-border/
Bernhard, glad I wasn’t the only one to notice that this is another of Kevins’ cyber-attack fantasies. This is the kind of fear mongering that is a hallmark of the neo-con, kooky right wingers. They love scaring themselves with this stuff.
Look at all the stuff they pirated thur out the years.military secrets,equipment,electronic gear,you name it they have done it. but now that big bucks that will come out of the games and they don’t want to share.spoiled sports,turn abouts fair play,if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.suck a hind tit.go tell mommy and daddy.
I think Kevin should be the Cyber Czar Obama taled about. If anyone could keep us safe – it would be Kevin! And oh boy would China have their hands full then!
Whatever the threat of cyber attacks from China may or may not be, this “attack” on pirate Olympics video is not part of it. There’s no reason to think that Xu is talking about illegally hacking into international websites – unless you’re just trying to stir things up for the the sake of stirring things up.
Doesn’t anyone else see the irony that this “attack” will be for the benefit of the broadcast rights purchased by a US corporation (NBC)? What Xu is saying, it will NOT be “business as usual” when a multinational corp is paying big $$ to do business in China.
Contrast this with the tanker replacement debacle. Whatever the relative merits of the Boeing & Airbus proposals really are, you can be sure the average Euro thinks that Boeing is getting an unfair chance at a “do over”.
Will – Dude you don’t get it! THEY NEED TO FOLLOW THE LAW! Why should anyone respect their IP rights when they do not respect ours? 85% of counterfeit goods come from China. I wish some of the people on here would pay attention to the nightly news or read a paper once in a while.
You can say you will enforce your IP rights, you can say you will seek immediate legal action in the international courts – but you do NOT threaten to “Take Down Their Web Site” I am a lawyer and practice IP law
Haha, Markus Wolf. You are just like your namesake, twisting the truth to fit your liberal, or rather commie, mindset. Go find your Erich Mielke and Erich Honecker namesakes in the world.
>>Contrast this with the tanker replacement debacle. Whatever the relative merits of the Boeing & Airbus proposals really are, you can be sure the average Euro thinks that Boeing is getting an unfair chance at a “do over”.
You don’t have to be a European to think that. It’s blatantly obvious. Airbus put up a tanker that was superior in literally every possible way, and thus it was selected. Boeing is being given a do-over because they’re an American company, even though “buy American” was never one of the criteria for the contract.
USA lead in protection of media rights on the internet, China is using our own rules against us.
I’ll tell ya what I’m doing about it, I’m not watching.
Maybe China should follow their own “normal” procedure – round up a couple thousand innocent people – men, women, and children, then execute them – in public of course – good entertainment! The Chinese government has mobile vans (built by Fiat in China) to perform lethal injection executions in a more efficient assembly line fashion. Of course President Bush must attend the games or it might offend the Chinese (his own words). What a crock! At least our “leadership” recognizes our new master. I feel for the athletes being the pawns in this, however, anybody attending or endorsing this mockery is not deserving of anybody’s respect or support.
It is compared to the immigration issues like the US-Mexican border.
Those who live in Detroit, MI or Buffalo, NY can pick up Canadian TV stations without the FCC blocking them. This one can apply to the ones who lives near the Mexican border. For example, living in Milwaukee, WI can pick up TV stations from Chicago with a high-quality VHF/UHF antenna.
There are also Americans living abroad and some of them can’t get access to U.S. television programs, whether satellite or the Internet.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has gone to China. He will discuss the development of strategic partnership and sign a protocol demarcating the eastern part of the Russian-Chinese border.
Lavrov will meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Chinese State Council Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing on July 21-22. Negotiations with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi are also planned.
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good luck with that china. on the other hand, if china follows up, people will realize the threat of cyber attack and maybe we will be more prepared.
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