US Ambassador asks Vietnam to target 123movies, Putlocker, and Kisscartoon

 

 

While copyright industry groups frequently call on governments to take action against pirate sites, it's not often that we see such requests on the highest diplomatic level. That's exactly what happened this week, when the US Ambassador to Vietnam called on the local Government to criminally prosecute the movie streaming sites 123movies, Putlocker and Kisscartoon.

 

Pirate video streaming sites are booming. Their relative ease of use through on-demand viewing makes them a viable alternative to P2P file-sharing, which traditionally dominated the piracy arena.

 

Copyright holders are not happy with this development and are doing everything in their power to stop this trend, both through legal action and lobbying.

 

 

This week they received support on a diplomatic level. On Tuesday, Ted Osius, US Ambassador to Vietnam,  held a meeting with the local Minister of Information and Communications, Truong Minh Tuan.

 

One of the topics high on the agenda was an increased cooperation between the Vietnamese Government and US Internet companies such as YouTube and Facebook. The Government wants these services to remove or block offensive content that violates local laws.

 

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I think they should focus on sorting out their own disasters at home rather than interfere with other countries.

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No doubt the VN gov't will get right on that.....the Putlocker and 123 sites I've been using have a .is domain, I don't think VN could do much about those even if they wanted to.