File-sharing Web site gets license

PPLive, a Web site that offers online video entertainment service, obtained a license last year, says People's Daily Online. It told the Global Times that obtaining a license is essential.

"The biggest difference between PPLive and BTChina is that all the online programmes we offer have copyright approval," PPLive's marketing director Chen Zhong said.

But experts said obtaining license will not make VeryCD immune from future crackdown.

According to regulations set by China's State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT), any video-providing Website that has not received an Online Audio-Visual Broadcasting License by 20 December will be shut down or forbidden to provide audiovisual content, reports Marbridge Daily.

Starting 1 March 2010, SARFT authorities at all levels of government will investigate the licensing status of all audiovisual Web sites within their jurisdictions. Those found to be severe violators - having conducted unlicensed broadcasts for more than three months - will be investigated and shut down according to the

"Notice of the Establishment of a Blacklisting System for Illegal Domestic Websites" issued by SARFT, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), and 10 other governmental departments.

Acentech says that it provided architectural acoustics and audiovisual and IT systems design services for the new Villanova University School of Law building in Villanova, Pennsylvania, writes Boston SF.

“The acoustics and audiovisual systems of the new Law School are excellent, a sentiment shared by faculty and students,” says April Barton, assistant dean for Academic Computing.

“Acentech's ability to bring thoughtful expertise and creative strategy to the audiovisual system was critical to us, and we are delighted with the advanced technology capabilities of the new Law School building.”