Chinese Internet culture II "free Internet"
It seems to be a interesting topic to talk about China? And I think there are some misconstruction about Chinese Internet, so I want to provide some other information about Chinese online culture.
As many of you have known, there two kinds of logic in the world. One is the logic and the other is Chinese logic. There are also two different kind of Internet on earth. One is the Internet, and the other is the China-net. In my last article, I say that the Chinese government has add many restrictions on the Internet and prevent the user to get the bad news about Party. You may think the China-net is like a dead land. But, actually it is not. It is much "free".
"Free" means you do not need to pay money to get what you want. For instance, Music is free to download or listen online in China. Video and TV series are free to watch online in China. Most of the Android games are free to download! And there is even no taxes when you shopping online. It's free! You may say it is illegal or it is against the law! But it is a kind of legal thing in China at present. Let me explain to you. Why most of the Android games are free? You know that Google has quit the market of the China. So in China your Google play is not working. However, people can not live without game and the producers of the game want to earn the money. So they earn the money by adding advertisements in their apps.
Advertisement! It is the key word how China-net works at present. The TV producers sell the right to broadcast their TV series to the particular websites to earn money. These websites earn money from their ad.
The main reason is that the Chinese government do not have special laws to control the actions of sharing things online, which is just the model of P2P at first. Since the power of the market, some big websites want to benefit from "sharing". So they use ad. to earn their money. However, there are still many illegal sharing online in China. Like many American movies, you can watch Pacific Rim with 1080p online and these sharers and down loaders do not pay the money. Some producers of Japanese anime is much clever in this way. They know their product can not enter the Chinese market.(Actually there are more restriction on the physical products) So they sell the the rights to broadcast to Chinese websites and block the sites.
Thanks you, Marx. Since there is no Internet at your time, Chinese government do not how to really control it.
"Free" means you do not need to pay money to get what you want. For instance, Music is free to download or listen online in China. Video and TV series are free to watch online in China. Most of the Android games are free to download! And there is even no taxes when you shopping online. It's free! You may say it is illegal or it is against the law! But it is a kind of legal thing in China at present. Let me explain to you. Why most of the Android games are free? You know that Google has quit the market of the China. So in China your Google play is not working. However, people can not live without game and the producers of the game want to earn the money. So they earn the money by adding advertisements in their apps.
Advertisement! It is the key word how China-net works at present. The TV producers sell the right to broadcast their TV series to the particular websites to earn money. These websites earn money from their ad.
The main reason is that the Chinese government do not have special laws to control the actions of sharing things online, which is just the model of P2P at first. Since the power of the market, some big websites want to benefit from "sharing". So they use ad. to earn their money. However, there are still many illegal sharing online in China. Like many American movies, you can watch Pacific Rim with 1080p online and these sharers and down loaders do not pay the money. Some producers of Japanese anime is much clever in this way. They know their product can not enter the Chinese market.(Actually there are more restriction on the physical products) So they sell the the rights to broadcast to Chinese websites and block the sites.
Thanks you, Marx. Since there is no Internet at your time, Chinese government do not how to really control it.
Very interesting. I did not know that internet is free in China, however, there is a catch to that. The government controls the internet. Does that mean that there are no internet companies in China?
ReplyDeleteOf course no. But these Internet companies benefit from the ad. "Government control the Internet" just means that the network server is monitored by the government and some words will be ****. If they find any websites "bad", the government will block them
DeleteIt sounds like it has its pros and cons. Like free to get most of the stuff we pay for in America but in China you don't have some of the big developers since they're losing money. It'll be interesting to see if that changes in the coming years.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that you could download andriod apps to your computer in China either! this is very interesting to me
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