Web video piracy war heats up

The competition in China's internet video sharing market has intensified recently with dozens of major video web sites being sued for piracy by a group of online video copyright owners.

The anti-piracy alliance calls for online video web sites to prevent spreading of unauthorized video work.

The anti-piracy alliance calls for online video web sites to prevent spreading of unauthorized video work.

Sohu dot com is one of the initiators of the campaign.

Charles Zhang, CEO of Sohu.com, said, "More than 200 million Chinese Internet users watch video from the web sites. If the problem of those sites involved in piracy is solved, the long-lasting piracy problem in China will be solved."