Copyright watchdogs have found more than 1,600 pirated Olympic broadcasts at home and abroad since the opening of the Games.
More than 100 of the 1,600 cases occurred in China, Yan Xiaohong, vice-minister of the National Copyright Administration said Saturday at a press conference in Beijing International Media Center.
"We dealt with every pirate broadcast in China within two hours," Yan said.
The first step is to issue offenders with a warning. If they fail to take heed of this, they are ordered to remove the offending content.
During the Games, the government has strengthened copyright protection, which is supervised by the National Copyright Administration, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Council Information Office.
"We realized that protecting copyrights couldn't just depend on one department, but needs joint effort," Yan said.
China, with the world's largest number of Internet users, has taken many steps to fight piracy.
Besides joining the World Intellectual Property Organization Internet Treaties, China has undertaken an annual campaign since 2005 to fight piracy, involving the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Copyright Administration and the Ministry of Public Security.
"People are paying more attention to copyrights, which vindicates our efforts in popularizing this issue," Yan said.
However, there do exist some IPR infringement problems as the system began to be put in place only 30 years ago, Yan said.
"However, we are on our way to success. In June, the State Council released the Outline of the National Intellectual Property Strategy, which will further help protect intellectual property rights, including copyrights," he said.
