Copyright violations —fueling a ¥95-billion illegal industry— steal the sustenance for future creation. Fast Movies crimes nip cultural development in the bud.
With billions of dollars in damages, content producers are responding creatively, from freezing bank accounts to preemptively publishing their work in Chinese.
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