Youku.com on THIS 中国 SIDE of the Great FireWall...

So, there are advantages to the Great Fire Wall. What are they? Full length movies on Youku...

What is Youku.com? Well, it's like YouTube, but... BETTER? (that's what a girl in class told me last week)

hmm.

The catch?

If you try to load it from the USA, you get an error:



But if you load it from China? You see the the full-length feature film which looks like this:





Yeah for Intellectual Property...

Comments

Kim Smith said…
Where's 'here,' Markie???
October 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM
El Malcriado said…
Not sure I understand, do they disregard copy rights and intellectual property?

Thanks and I'll take my answer off the air.

DeCicco
October 31, 2009 at 10:31 AM
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