The Chinese authorities have closed in recent days 530 file-sharing sites using BitTorrent technology, including the popular BTChina.net, informed the official China Daily.
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said that the closed pages did not have the necessary licenses to operate, leaving the door open to return to be operational if they get official permission.
Sources of that administration, responsible for censorship China, noted that the sites offered on all movies, television series and other programs, "some erotic content.
The state institution emphasized that research will continue its campaign of websites that offer audiovisual content via P2P, and stressed that the regulation of audiovisual content on the Internet is "a long-term."
The newspaper China Daily said, however, that the campaign against websites using the BitTorrent system has been a sharp increase in the sale of pirated DVDs and CDs on the street.
China is one of the countries most censorship and control exercised over the content on the Internet, but also the nation with the largest number of Internet users (300 million).
The file-sharing websites have been placed in the crosshairs of state authorities on culture in other countries, like Spain, where the preparation of a law that provides closure without requiring a court decision has caused the Spanish Internet protests.
Some of them, in a recent meeting with the Minister of Culture, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, argued that adopting such a law would get that state controls on the Internet Spanish is very similar to those of China
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