The Chinese authorities on Thursday announced the launch of a new initiative for monitoring online piracy, but acknowledged the difficulty of clamping down on such activity, and asked for international assistance to do so.
According to a report from the Xinhua state news agency, Yan Xiaohong, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration, revealed that a monitoring service was expected to be launched in May of this year, which will retain a database of music, film and other copyrighted content, and will automatically search for unauthorised use of such content, and request that it is deleted, where found.
It is anticipated that the first phase of the monitoring project will cost in the region of 8 million yuan.
"This will help us to locate and deal with IPR violation cases more accurately and swiftly," he reportedly explained.
However, he admitted to reporters that: "Internet copyright infringement is still very prevalent in the country."
According to the China Daily news service, the NCA deputy director went on to add that although several government crackdowns on unauthorised online use of copyrighted material had been successful, "they only served to achieve limited results by dealing with a limited number of cases in a limited period of time".
He reportedly went on to call for tougher penalties, observing that:
"Fines and sentences meted out have not been enough.We must make offenders realize the costs of violation are too high for them to continue."
Meanwhile, Public Security Ministry official, Gao Feng called for international support for the Chinese government's efforts, pointing to the fact that servers utilised by pirates are often located outside the country, and arguing, according to AFP, that:
"Copyright infringements, by their very nature, are international crimes. To effectively curb such activities, (we) need enhanced international cooperation on law enforcement."
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