CATDOLL: Baidu temporarily shuts down a large number of post bars and anime discussion forums due to copyright issues

Since last night (May 22), many netizens have found that a large number of Baidu Tieba have been blocked and cannot be accessed. This includes many anime discussion bars, including One Piece, Hatsune Miku, Pokemon, Nisio Isin, Harem Anime, The King's Avatar, etc. Although a small number of Tieba, including One Piece, have been unblocked, there are still many Tieba that are temporarily closed. And now more literary Tieba are also temporarily closed.

Baidu Tieba officials finally released a statement this morning (May 23) to explain the large-scale closure of Tieba: "Baidu Tieba has always been committed to protecting genuine products and safeguarding the rights of original authors. In the past six months, Tieba has processed and deleted nearly 20,000 infringing links related to online literature on average every month, and actively cooperated with multiple copyright platforms and authors. From August 2015 to date, the number of genuine online literary works on the Tieba platform has reached nearly 1,000. In order to increase the protection of genuine products, safeguard the rights of original authors, and create a more formal communication platform for the majority of literature-loving friends, Baidu Tieba will now launch a comprehensive investigation of piracy and infringement, and continue to vigorously investigate and rectify infringing content. During the rectification campaign against pirated and infringing content, all Tieba forums under the literature directory will be temporarily closed in batches. After closure, Baidu Tieba will comprehensively rectify and investigate the pirated and infringing content. The reopening time of this batch of closed Tieba forums will be announced in the forum owner area. We apologize for the inconvenience caused to you. In order to cooperate with this special rectification campaign against pirated and infringing online literary content, we have also added 2 green channels for posting complaints: the National Reporting Forum and the Tieba Exposure Platform. Once a report is received, Baidu Tieba will immediately conduct an investigation. After verification, we will remove the relevant infringing content within 12 hours. Baidu Tieba always adopts a "zero tolerance" attitude towards infringing content on the platform, and will continue to vigorously investigate and rectify infringing content. Welcome all forum friends to supervise together! At the same time, as the world's largest Chinese community, Baidu Tieba also hopes that more genuine online literature will be stationed! ".

It seems that the closure of Baidu Tieba is related to the copyright of literary works, and some anime discussion forums should be temporarily closed because the works were mentioned, but it is not known whether Baidu's action will affect Japanese anime or even ACG. At present, ACG-related forums such as Hatsune Miku, Pokemon, and Digimon have not been unblocked, and we will continue to pay attention to the follow-up reports of this incident.

List of closed forums summarized by netizens