Team set up to monitor webcasts

Authorities will maintain a round-the-clock watch on 216 Chinese websites in a bid to stop unauthorized transmissions of Olympic events, a senior official from the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) said yesterday.

NCAC Vice-Minister Yan Xiaohong said a surveillance team has been set up to detect and block all webcasts of events, except those that are authorized by the International Olympic Committee or CCTV.com, the official online broadcaster.

On receipt of a complaint, the NCAC monitoring center will decide if the transmission is legal or not, Yan, who is leading the team, said.