Anxious netizens await crackdown on TV shows

Xiao Jing, a 27-year-old translator, has been feeling closely connected to the characters of Lost, the American TV series she has been following.

What bothers her so much is a regulation issued on March 31 by the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV (SARFT), China's top industry regulator.

It ordered that all domestic and foreign films, TV series, animation pictures and documentaries transmitted online must be licensed by the media regulator. For many young Chinese Internet users, this means they may lose their free lunch of foreign TV series.