Refund increased. The Wandering Earth was attacked by piracy.
Refund increased. The Wandering Earth was attacked by piracy.
0.5 yuan to 5 yuan can watch Chinese New Year movies, and cat-eye movies show that the number of refunds in The Wandering Earth has increased; The National Copyright Administration says piracy is being curbed.
It took The Wandering Earth only four days from the release to the appearance of high-definition piracy.
On February 5th, Chinese New Year movies such as The Wandering Earth, Crazy Alien and New king of comedy came. Among them, The Wandering Earth is regarded as the milestone of China’s sci-fi movies, which has aroused the attention of the whole people. The Beijing News reporter found that on the first day after the release of these films, there was a gun version of the video; On February 8th, all the high-definition video resources of movies being shown were already available online.
The Beijing News reporter contacted a number of people who sold "high-definition movie resources" and found that the prices of the above-mentioned movies ranged from 0.5 yuan to 5 yuan, and the playing forms mainly included direct viewing by sharing links with network disks and direct viewing from websites. In addition, movies and videos purchased from multiple channels were all advertised as barrage in a casino in Macau.
On February 10th, the National Copyright Administration issued a statement, saying that it would severely crack down on online infringement and piracy, protect excellent domestic films, and hand over serious infringement and piracy elements to the public security department to take criminal measures to severely crack down.
Deng Hongguang, a professor of intellectual property at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, told the Beijing News reporter that "online piracy is often copied by people by recording movies and then uploaded to the Internet. Its behavior infringes the copyright owner’s right to copy and disseminate information on the Internet, and may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and fined".
Macao casino advertisement appears in pirated video.
On February 5th, the Spring Festival Lunar New Year movie came, and on February 6th, Xiaokang (a pseudonym), a seller selling movie resources online, got the gun version resources of Crazy Alien and New king of comedy.
The Beijing News reporter saw in a well-off circle of friends that these movie videos were directly "stolen" in the cinema, so the picture was slightly shaky and unclear. In this regard, Xiaokang said that it can be "free to make up" after the high-definition resources are released.
On February 8th, a well-off circle of friends appeared "HD Video of 2019 Spring Festival Lunar New Year movies", including The Wandering Earth, Crazy Alien, Flying Life, New king of comedy, and Clean Government. The HD version of the above films is sold as a movie in 5 yuan, which can be watched directly through the network disk.
In the hands of another seller of movie resources, the price was pressed even lower. The above-mentioned films, together with Pu Songling, Piggy Peggy for the New Year, are packaged and sold at the price of 4 yuan. On average, you only need to ask 0.5 yuan for a movie. On February 8 th, the movie released in the Spring Festival file was already caught by pirates, which was only the fourth day after the movie was released.
Xiaokang told the Beijing News reporter that when new movies are released, what they get is generally gun version resources, not HD. Therefore, this time, when the New Year’s film was released in high definition, it "sold a lot".
The Beijing News reporter noted that since February 8, the pirated broadcast resources of HD version have flooded the whole network. There is even a "resource website" that directly plays movie videos for free. On February 10th, the Beijing News reporter found in a resource station provided by a pirate that you can directly watch The Wandering Earth in HD1080P online for free as long as you log in to the website. The website can even log in and watch through WeChat scan code.
In this regard, The Wandering Earth producer Gong Geer told the media a few days ago that the staff in The Wandering Earth did not have time to celebrate the rising box office, but spent almost all their energy on complaining and blocking piracy.
On February 8th, Gong Geer said in his personal Weibo that all the anti-piracy links suggested by netizens have been reported and blocked, but for technical reasons, some of them are blocked quickly and some need some time. Everyone’s private messages are not energetic enough to reply one by one. "My anti-piracy team and I are especially grateful for your support. Please continue to cheer!"
On February 10th, the National Copyright Administration said that serious infringement and piracy will be handed over to the public security department to take criminal measures to crack down. On February 11th, Weibo, the official of the National Copyright Administration, reported that in recent days, through the joint action of various departments and rights holders, the pirated transmission of cinema films for the Spring Festival has been curbed to some extent.
Yesterday, the Beijing News reporter found that WeChat has banned the WeChat viewing link of the aforementioned pirated websites because it contains "infringing content".
Pirates drain through social networking sites and online shopping platforms.
Where do the high-definition movie resources of the Spring Festival file come from? Xiaokang told reporters that he downloaded from the "resource number" and "website with resources".
The Beijing News reporter found that these "resource numbers" are WeChat official account, which often publish some film and television resources. However, many "resource numbers" are not the direct source of film leakage. Because the threshold of pirated video is extremely low, every buyer who downloads pirated video can directly monopolize it and become the next seller, so most pirates are the lower participants in the pyramid of pirated video industry chain, not the "source" of film leakage.
Zhao Hu, a partner of Beijing Zhongwen Law Firm, told the Beijing News that the source of the film leak is complicated. "Because a movie has to go through several hands from production to final release, in addition to production, there are also corresponding departments of the country, corresponding cinemas and distributors, and there will be a movie master, and many people will handle it. Any place that is handled may be the source. "
But it is very easy to become a pirate. Xiaokang told the Beijing News reporter that it only costs 188 yuan.
"When we recruit an agent and pay an agent fee of 188 yuan, we can get the’ resource number’ and the reliable website, and get all the resources updated for free. You can watch any movie you want from it."
It is worth noting that the Beijing News reporter found that these "high-definition videos" always drift across the advertising barrage of a casino in Macau from time to time, and watch the movie resources in the above three ways, and the advertising barrage appears in different ways.
Xiaokang said that his drainage method is to search for relevant Weibo or videos by keywords on platforms such as Weibo and bilibili, and then post advertisements in the comment area. Advertising language will generally be "high-definition resources plus WeChat XXX", and in order to avoid censorship, letters or homophones will be used instead of movie names. The Beijing News reporter found that although such comments may attract buyers, they often attract criticism and even be reported. For example, in bilibili, a video comment area called "The Wandering Earth’s overseas broadcasts have been well received by foreign netizens", after someone posted a drainage advertisement below, some netizens commented that "piracy was promoted and reported".
In addition to social networking sites and various video sites, online shopping platforms have also become one of the main battlefields for pirates to drain. On February 11th, the Beijing News reporter found a number of sellers selling movie resources after searching for "movie" on idle fish. One of the sellers said that he sold "How about a movie for the New Year? Interested messages". After the reporter left a message, he was told that he could take pictures of the goods directly on the idle fish, and then send a link to the network disk through QQ to watch.
Zhao Hu said that piracy is very harmful to the pirated links of popular movies, because the movie is in the release period and its income mainly depends on the box office. If there is a link, it will have a substitution effect, which will have an impact on the box office, which is a very direct damage.
The Beijing News reporter inquired about the box office in The Wandering Earth through Cat’s Eye movies, and found that although the box office in The Wandering Earth rose steadily due to the rising word of mouth, on February 7th, the number of large-scale refunds for the movie was 124,000, while on February 8th and 9th, the number of large-scale refunds for the movie increased slightly, with 143,000 and 146,000 respectively.
Lawyers said that serious pirates may be sentenced to imprisonment.
Deng Hongguang, a professor of intellectual property at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, said that piracy is essentially the pursuit of personal interests. As long as it is driven by sufficient interests and the risk of this behavior is less than the income, it is difficult to fundamentally eliminate this piracy. If we say prevention, first of all, we should truly realize that "law enforcement must be strict and violators must be prosecuted", thus reducing the psychological expectation of pirates to take risks; The second is to increase the supervision obligation of the platform and require the platform to provide relevant infringement information.
Zhao Hu, a partner of Beijing Zhongwen Law Firm, told the Beijing News reporter that the fight against piracy is divided into two aspects: beforehand and afterwards. "In advance, the state organs that have access to the film manage their staff well, and the producers and project parties of the film sign confidentiality agreements to prevent leakage. Afterwards, regardless of infringement or crime, it is necessary to use legal weapons to actively defend rights and let pirates pay the corresponding price. It would be better if they could find the corresponding source. "
"China’s copyright law stipulates that other people’s works may not be used in this way without authorization. In addition, if the circumstances are serious, it will constitute a crime of copyright infringement. In other words, if the illegal income is large, or other serious circumstances, it may constitute a crime of copyright infringement and may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years. If it is particularly large, it may be fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years. " Zhao Hu said.
Pirated movies are only a small part of the income of pirates. Xiaokang revealed that because the resources of new movies are not high-definition, most of them are gun versions, and basically "not much to buy", his main income from selling movie resources comes from "restricted" movies that are not allowed to spread. The method of obtaining resources is exactly the same as that of cinema movies, but more people often buy them.
In this regard, Deng Hongguang said that as long as other people’s movies are pirated, whether it is a hot movie or a classic movie that has already been played, whether it is a domestic movie or a foreign movie, its behavior is the same in law, which constitutes infringement of copyright. Those who commit serious acts shall be investigated for civil, administrative and criminal responsibilities.
"Playing cartoons and film reviews that are explicitly prohibited by SARFT from spreading can be punished from illegal business operation and dissemination of obscene articles. For example, according to the provisions of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment, anyone who uses computer information networks, telephones and other communication tools to disseminate obscene information shall be detained for more than 10 days and less than 15 days, and may be fined less than 3,000 yuan; If the circumstances are minor, they shall be detained for less than 5 days or fined for less than 500 yuan. " Deng Hongguang said. (Reporter Luo Yidan, liang chen)