Ministry orders music cleanup
By Zhou Wenting | China Daily | Updated: 2011-08-29 07:56
New regulation designed to limit unauthorized song downloads
BEIJING - The Ministry of Culture has ordered domestic websites to halt playback and download services for 100 songs from other markets that were not officially approved before being uploaded to the Internet.
"A website that is engaged in the operation of an online music product must go through procedures with the ministry before providing playback and download services for the song on the Internet," Li Jian, an official in the ministry's department of cultural markets, told China Daily on Sunday.
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