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14 January 2014
On December 30, 2013, Chinese government officials reported the results of the country's ninth "Online Sword Campaign" at a press conference in Beijing. The campaign is designed to fight internet copyright infringement.
According to Yu Cike, director general of the Department of Copyright Administration of the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC), 512 complaints were filed during the campaign, among which 190 were administrative cases and 93 were moved to judicial departments as criminal cases. The campaign also forfeited 137 servers and shut down 201 websites.
She said that the NCAC has expanded its supervising scope to 25 major music and video websites. Local copyright administrations are watching a further 1,881 websites. The work is effectively supressing the fast growth of internet infringement, said Yu at the conference jointly held by the NCAC, the State Internet Information Office, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Public Security.
Yu said that the campaign focused on books, recordings, e-publications in major areas such as internet literature, music, movie and software. She further noted that this specific project has achieved a nice effect with detailed work and innovative management.
The NCAC has cooperated with the Ministry of Public Security, the High Court, the High Procuratorate and the Office of the National Work Group for Combating Pornography and Illegal Publications in solving the important cases.
The first Online Sword Campaign was in 2005 when China started to fight online copyright infringement.
