Porn in China: Death by success takes on a new meaning
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The phenomenon of &quot;death by success&quot; -- in which a website is brought down by strong user interest -- is well known online but has taken a new twist in China.
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By Michael Casey, Associated Press  ZHEN
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The Internet in China is not as  restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most  controls actually coming from sites practicing self-censorship,  an academic who studies the Chinese Web said on Thursday.
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Wei Wenhua was a model communist and is now a bloggers' hero. He was beaten to death by Chinese city inspectors as he snapped photos of them beating villagers. The death has sparked outrage. "City inspectors are worse than the mafia," one blogger writes.
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A Japanese-developed adult-themed  computer game has incensed some of China's Internet surfers who  deem it a bawdy slur on the classic novel, "Dream of the Red  Chamber."
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SHANGHAI, China  - Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, cellphones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life imprisonment under new rules that take effect Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Major players in the adult-entertainment industry, long in the vanguard of technology use, now find themselves playing catch-up. Overall sales and rentals of X-rated DVDs have plunged 15% in the last year and up to 30% over the past two years because video and photos on the Internet - much of it created by amateurs - are available at a fraction of the cost or for free. PornoTube.com and YouPorn.com are piping user-generated naughty content straight to the PCs, cellphones and Internet-connected TVs of consumers. Internet-based porn sales, by contrast, grew 14%, to $2.8 billion, last year.
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Music, books and Hollywood films...  China can now add testimonies of regret by corrupt officials to  its exhaustive list of copyright violations.
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China is launching a nationwide crackdown on sexually suggestive video and audio products, in the latest effort by government censors to curb content considered to be in bad taste.
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Putting breasts and a gormless expression of child-like delight on the late Mao Zedong in the name of art may seem nothing short of blasphemous for China's culture guardians.
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Music, books and Hollywood films... China can now add testimonies of regret by corrupt officials to its exhaustive list of copyright violations.
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SHANGHAI, China  - China has ordered severe punishment for phone sex operators as part of a sweeping crackdown on electronic pornography, Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
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Porn used to be relegated to a video hidden in the bottom drawer, or a magazine under the mattress. Today, it's part of everyday life.
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MILAN, Italy  - An irreverent Internet site  crammed with pornography has Italy's elite squirming with  unease.
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There was a time the words âMade in Chinaâ immediately evoked âshoddy.â Lately, many Americans are thinking âdanger.â
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Those who are engaged in the profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and &quot;phone-sex&quot; services in China are subject to punishment as severe as life imprisonment, according
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After years of booming sales supported by videotapes, DVDs and the Internet, the adult film industry is being challenged by easy video-sharing Web sites offering explicit content for free.