Websites Offering Subtitles for Foreign TV Shows, Movies Shut Down

(Beijing) – Two websites providing subtitles for foreign video content closed on November 22 as the government clamps down on TV programs and movies available on the Internet.

Yyets.com and Shooter.cn provided Net users with Chinese-language subtitles for pirated TV shows and movies that can be downloaded from websites outside the country. The two sites were supported by communities of volunteers – often students studying abroad – who wrote the subtitles for the programs, many of them from the United States.