SubscribeVoice from Chinese Music SP Regarding Government Regulation
Today we read an exclusive interview of Co-founder and CEO of Top100.cn regarding recent tightened regulation of online music from Chinese government:
Overall I think it is a positive move. Online music market in China need to be regulated.
[…] If legal online business would spend one month to get IFPI authentification of copyrights and then go through Ministry of Culture censorship, then piracy business will definitely beat legit business in China again.
[…] certain international company use double standard (legal business in America; illegal search and download in China) in Chinese market and make government agency and value chain disappointed and lose confidence in them.
Certainly we also believe the new published regulation of online music will bring new opportunity into this booming market, and eventually drag some attention into real business from pirate battles.
Introducing Top100.cn
Beijing based Top100.cn is a legit online music downloading service provider. It launched in March 2006. Initial investment of the company includes 20 million Chinese Yuan from NBA star Yao Ming.
They intended to provide an iTune style service in China. Single download price is RMB 1-3. They also have monthly subscription model with RMB 5-15 per channel. Indy musicians can use their platform to sell music.
The service provides music files in WMA format encrypted with Microsoft DRM. The quality of music is 192KBPS, and they also provide 48KBPS online free preview. Label partners listed on their website include EMI, SonyBMG, Warner Music Group etc.
In an earlier interview, CEO of Top100.cn mentioned their partnership with The Orchard to introduce international music channel into China. Of course with the new regulation published, they should get approval from Ministry of Culture to continue this program.
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I followed the top100.cn’s CEO interview link on Hypebot and also noticed that they have also added another report called “More on Chinese crackdown” at
http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2006/12/more_on_chinese.html#more where the CEO’s comments were questioned and top100.cn claim’s of being legitimate are disputed.
Seems like top100.cn has not cleared a lot of rights for the music they sell including publishing rights – maybe CWR should investigate this? It is disgraceful that top100.cn should accuse others of piracy when it is itself engaging in the same…
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