Link to the Show / Show Notes“If they tried to stop those Web sites ... What if we all started to boycott all Chinese shows? ... We have the right to choose what we want to watch.”--Yao Jun...More than 200 million Chinese now have access to American TV online, for example. Downloading has become so popular, that it's even cutting into the profits of vendors who sell pirated DVDs...The subtitles are created by other China-based fans of American television. Two of them agreed to talk with NPR at a brand-new, latte-serving cafe in Shanghai. They give only their screen names— Han Xian and Liang Liang...Liang Liang organizes the group and helps make sure each new show has translators assigned. Among the translated shows posted on their Web site,YYeTs.net, are American Idol, Prison Break, Gossip Girls, Survivor, The Moment of Truth and Battlestar Galactica...Liang, Han and all the other translators are volunteers. The group even puts its own money into maintaining the site. "We are a nonprofit organization," says Han. "To some extent, what we do is a kind of bridge for two different cultures." Although they would not give me their real names or meet me at their homes, Han and Liang say they don't think they are doing anything illegal...In fact, they could face fines if caught. But the chances of getting caught are slim...I Really agree with the Chinese guys' opinion about pirated American Shows spread in China...To be ContinuedZorro????
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