This past Sunday has been labeled “Black Sunday” by Chinese netizens after China’s major file sharing site VeryCD disabled all its downloads.

Being one of the leading file-sharing sites in China, VeryCD was the major source of eMule downloads for music and videos. It had virtually everything – from Hollywood blockbusters to Korean pop songs to Japanese TV shows. Although the site is still accessible, all download links have been removed, in its place are links to licensed contents. VeryCD is now moving towards legitimacy by obtaining an official license to operate and moving towards authorized content.

After 7 years of good times, a lot of users will definitely be deeply saddened. After avoiding a crackdown against many similar sites in 2008, the pressure on VeryCD in 2011 was clearly too much. Earlier this month, China’s attempts at reducing copyright infringement have increasingly targeted the digital domain and while Youtube-like sites have taken up much of the spotlight, it was only a matter of time before linking sites like VeryCD felt similar heat.

It seems the crackdown on online piracy is now in full force and a lot earlier than most anticipated. Earlier this month, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security released a document which detailed penalties for online copyright infringement.

If someone uploads a movie, TV show, music, software or even image to the Internet without the consent of the copyright holder, penalties apply if certain conditions are met. These include if more than 500 pieces of the work are spread to others, if total online downloads hit 50,000 or if a site where the material is located has a sign-up membership of more than 1,000. Penalties are harsh – between 3 and 7 years in jail.

via TorrentFreak.

With the huge growth in the population of “宅男” (recluse who spends all day to play video games, watch TV, eat and sleep) it seems like a great idea to profit from them. They give their money away so easily for cute little girls; especially those with big boobs. They buy any merchandise with cute little girls on them – photos, videos and even pillows.

It is so easy that even the ugly duckling can make a quick buck from them. Well, at least one who pretends to be a hot chick.

A 27 year old woman, who weighs 128kg, made a total of 2 million Taiwan dollars (or 66,890 USD) by pretending to be a hot chick online. Using a photo of someone else, she makes some friends with unsuspecting targets. Later, she pretends to be in major trouble such as having a dying father and asks for financial support. The naive Taiwan geeks help unconditionally (maybe they think they might make sex later). Those who try to meet the con-woman in person are rejected. (These boys might be rejected so often that they don’t notice anything wrong)

Except for that one boy who did manage to see the girl of his dreams in person. He almost died of shock…

Chinese gamers are really serious and seriously rich. Take this gamer for instance: unhappy that a competing guildmaster in the Chinese MMO Magic World Online 2 got to play in an IMAX theater, he came up with a way to play on a bigger screen. Not just a bigger screen, in fact, the World’s largest LED display. This display, measuring at 250-meter-long and 30-meter-wide, is so big that it is called the “skyscreen”. It is located in, The Place, a high-end mall in Beijing.

The most insane thing about the whole stunt is that the gamer paid RMB 100,000 (around USD 15,000) for just 10 minutes of game time. This may also earn him the title for the gamer who “wasted the most money in the least amount of time”.

Other rich Chinese gamers will have to wait until the LED screen in Dubai which will become the World’s largest when completed, before beating this record.

via Engadget

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