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These Chinese aggregators are all the same, just like Toutiao from Bytedance (that TikTok company), not long ago the world's most valuable startup. Together wi

These Chinese aggregators are all the same, just like Toutiao from Bytedance (that TikTok company), not long ago the world's most valuable startup. Together with Tencent's WeChat and other me-too sites they created the "self-media" cottage industry, basically lend credibility and let laymen publish all sorts of lowbrow and sensationalistic content to earn ad money. If you check https://www.bilibili.com/ https://www.bilibili.com/, a very popular Chinese video site (I'd say also a stomping ground for anime pedophiles which the site was built upon. US listed btw.), you can find pirated US tv shows and basicially every popular yutube video, reprocessed, edited and watermarked as their "original" content, raking in money for their uploaders. Toutiao again is just the same model. Part of the reason why Bytedance is so valuable, is Chinese just love these things, their de facto "news" source, the vast majority of people didn't receive higher edcation and doesn't want to read serious articles (which Chinese state-controlled media also lack). Nobody care if it's original, they just want entertaining, explosive and easy-to-consume content.

ar-jan 8y ago
Time to add a map of Taiwan as independent state, Senkaku Islands as Japanese, etc., as an aside to any and all articles published? ;)
- cauldron 8y ago
  Copying and plagiarism is so prevalent and pervasive that these "self-media" platforms have to introduce an "original" tag. They will copy your content and edit it as the due process anyway, so add whatever you like and it won't deter them. Change some words and the paragraph order, add funny pics and snippets, alter key parts to make it much more explosive and eyecatching, voila. They even offer part-time on-line jobs for this reprocessing.
paraditedc 8y ago
Bilibili certainly has copyright issues, but it's the same issue with YouTube and other millions of websites with user-uploaded pirated contents. I wouldn't say Bilibili is much worse than any other websites.
- cauldron 8y ago
  Is this whataboutism? Funny I've been using Youtube for years, the only pirated content I've encountered were a few TV documenties and some unwacthable movies, and they seem to be deleted often. Never saw Youtube promote and recommend any pirated content to me, unlike Bilibili. Bilibili's front page is almost normal and all good, their shady stuff seems buried deep, my ipad is full of pirated Youtube videos with hundreds of thousands of views.
  - paraditedc 8y ago
    > Is this whataboutism? 1. The topic on this thread is copyright, not bilibili or YouTube per se. 2. You brought up YouTube yourself. I agree with the rest of your statements. YouTube is better than other websites in protecting copyright.
akfanta 8y ago
> the vast majority of people didn't receive higher edcation and doesn't want to read serious articles > Nobody care if it's original, they just want entertaining, explosive and easy-to-consume content. This is hardly a unique thing to Chinese.

ar-jan 8y ago

Time to add a map of Taiwan as independent state, Senkaku Islands as Japanese, etc., as an aside to any and all articles published? ;)

cauldron 8y ago
Copying and plagiarism is so prevalent and pervasive that these "self-media" platforms have to introduce an "original" tag. They will copy your content and edit it as the due process anyway, so add whatever you like and it won't deter them. Change some words and the paragraph order, add funny pics and snippets, alter key parts to make it much more explosive and eyecatching, voila. They even offer part-time on-line jobs for this reprocessing.

paraditedc 8y ago

Bilibili certainly has copyright issues, but it's the same issue with YouTube and other millions of websites with user-uploaded pirated contents. I wouldn't say Bilibili is much worse than any other websites.

cauldron 8y ago
Is this whataboutism? Funny I've been using Youtube for years, the only pirated content I've encountered were a few TV documenties and some unwacthable movies, and they seem to be deleted often. Never saw Youtube promote and recommend any pirated content to me, unlike Bilibili. Bilibili's front page is almost normal and all good, their shady stuff seems buried deep, my ipad is full of pirated Youtube videos with hundreds of thousands of views.
- paraditedc 8y ago
  > Is this whataboutism? 1. The topic on this thread is copyright, not bilibili or YouTube per se. 2. You brought up YouTube yourself. I agree with the rest of your statements. YouTube is better than other websites in protecting copyright.

akfanta 8y ago

> the vast majority of people didn't receive higher edcation and doesn't want to read serious articles > Nobody care if it's original, they just want entertaining, explosive and easy-to-consume content. This is hardly a unique thing to Chinese.