Subscribe56.com Down for Data Maintenance?
After 6-day down time, 56.com, one of the largest video sharing site in China, has another announcement on its website, saying that they are currently working on the maintenance of all video data, and performing a large scale system upgrade. No exact schedule of site return is provided. Previously, 56.com said the site down was due to server malfunctions.
We cannot imagine a video sharing site can take such a long time just for data maintenance, or because of server malfunctions. According to Kaiser Kuo, 56.com was “temporarily shut down by the Guangdong provincial branch of the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT)”. There are various version of rumor on the reason of shut down of 56.com, but we don’t know the exact reason yet.
The new regulation by SARFT, which became effective since Jan 31st, requires all video sharing site to have a license to operate video business in China. 56.com has not obtained such license so far, nor did Tudou.com and Youku.com. Some of the VC-backed video companies who have obtained the license include 100du.com, Ku6.com, 6.cn, and P2P video service UUSee.com.
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[...] Down for Data Maintenance? Posted in June 9th, 2008 by in Uncategorized 56.com Down for Data Maintenance? After 6-day down time, 56.com, one of the largest video sharing site in China, has anotherannouncement on its website, saying that they are currently working on the maintenance of all video data, and performing a large scale system … [...]
56 is dying.
The mysterious outage of video-sharing site 56.com…
The number three video sharing site in China has been offline for a week. What’s going on? No one outside…
the whole licensing thing is so far lawfully inadequate, even in the worlds where internet law is provisioned, the purpose for having a restrictive attraction in law and enforcement is for really the purpose of stealing IP and fraud. so far video sharing is not and should not be bound to such. and plus anonymous should remain anonymous. i don’t find setting up license could improve the fraudulent way of certain web business startups.
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