safe to view websites like this?

[humblestudent]

There's a lot of chinese websites like these, where you can view movies and listen to music.

 

http://www.pplive.com/

http://haoting.com

 

Wondering if any of your tech experts would know if these would infringe on any copyright laws here in the US?

[Bert]

There's a lot of chinese websites like these, where you can view movies and listen to music.

 

http://www.pplive.com/

http://haoting.com

 

Wondering if any of your tech experts would know if these would infringe on any copyright laws here in the US?

 

At first, I thought the PPLive was all Chinese programming and I wasn't worried about it so much. But I soon discovered it had international programming on it as well. They absolutely infringe on the copyright laws in the US and beyond. My wife mistakenly believed that since they were Chinese websites, she could download whatever she wanted. I had to remove PPLive from her laptop several times.

[Cerberus]

There's a lot of chinese websites like these, where you can view movies and listen to music.

 

http://www.pplive.com/

http://haoting.com

 

Wondering if any of your tech experts would know if these would infringe on any copyright laws here in the US?

 

H.S.,

 

I know of one of the sites PPLive.com, and as far as I ever knew, it never infringed of copyright laws. When my wife and I were first married, we occasionally stopped by, as it was free way back when. Now I believe that they charge a membership fee. Ergo, the onus of copyright infringement is on the PPLive, and not you/us.

 

In addition, the darn site never did show very good movies that either of us liked, was not real-time streaming, and other bothersome problems. We never returned. The other site I don't know anything about. Today, my wife prefers live streaming news programs/channels, from the Sichuan province.

 

Personally my advice would be to begin building a movie collection from Amazon.com, actual purchase of movies in China, a local "Chinatown" near you has plenty of stores that will sell Chinese language (some sub-titled), etc, etc. I sure that if you made inquies into local dealers in New York, Los Angeles, etc, you will find Chinese merchants that you could purchase from and have them sent to you. Your milage may vary, and I would definitely have a contract/guarantee that will stand up in a small claims court. Suffice to say, that there are unscrupulous merchants around.

 

As an afterthought, did you look into Netflix? They might have some Chinese movies, but I really don't know since I have never had needed to research them.

 

Dave

 

EDITED: Whoops! Just read Bert Jie-Lin's post. MY bad!

 

 

Obviously, he has been there and done this already. I will stand by my advice to begin building your own collection.

Edited December 3, 2009 by Cerberus (see edit history)

[dnoblett]

We use PP-Live, Excellent way for my wife to watch Chinese TV. Nothing wrong with that, just uncheck every extra junk, it tries to install a junky browser.

 

Also have used TV-U

 

http://www.tvunetworks.com/