After the video-sharing website Ku6 Media Co. laid off 20% of their sales team, due to "huge net losses," the recently fired employees fought back. What started as a heated argument soon turned into a brawl in their Shanghai offices.
Ku6 axes staff, leads to brawl... which ends up being filmed and put on Tudou
Online copyright crackdown: Where did all my favorite American shows go?
Back in November 2010, the government said it would ban any form of trading and supplying of unauthorized foreign TV shows. We heard that, said "Yeah, okay" and then went back to watching the new season of Mad Men on Tudou.com because well, if it was gonna be anything like the smoking ban, then we'd have nothing to worry about, right?
CCTV affiliate sues online video sharing sites
Are we finally about to see our own RIAA-like cases here in China? A CCTV affiliate called China International Television Corp. has now sued six online video service providers in the Beijing Haidian District Court. It is asking for 16.2 million RMB in compensation for the illegal broadcasting of its shows online. According to China Tech News, CCTV claims that its distribution of TV soap operas has declined last year thanks to these online video sites. But a representative of one of the providers, ku6.com, said that most of the videos on their website were uploaded by Internet users - a defense that hasn't really had a history of working well in the States. Welp, even if our favorite vid sites shut down, maybe this also means we'll be getting something similar to Hulu for Chinese soap operas soon.

