Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:10 AM
by
will
The mysterious outage of video-sharing site 56.com
The number three video sharing site in China has been offline for a week. What's going on? No one outside of the company or the government seems to know. Kaiser Kuo has been trying to find out. From his blog at Ogilvy:
This looks to be fairly grim, and Tudou’s episode now looks like a very
minor slap on the wrist compared to this. SARFT has already begun
issuing video licenses, but conspicuously absent in the first batch are
the leading sites; 6rooms and user-generated ad driven vid site Ku6,
along with Sequoia-backed P2P site UUSee.com, are among the first
recipients.
Also see Kaiser's post from June 4th on the same topic, and Tangos Chan's report.

Hello? Anybody home?
Previously:
Chinese YouTubes courting controversy? (July, 2006, from my old CNET Asia blog.)