With the two video sites in Shanghai, PPS and PPLive, is being staged increasingly violent struggle between Derby. Each other will react in the dislocation of this battle, PPLive PPS malicious accusations affect both levels of coincidence million users, while the PPS is accused of stealing PPLive cumulative exclusive rights to broadcast the drama 60.
Scores continue
April 19, PPLive dissemination of information, said the day of its competitors PPS software upgrade, there forced to delete the installed PPLive software behavior. The PPS said the move is a counter move to the other video content infringement.
And yesterday the two sides of the dispute from escalating further. PPS to the courts, sued to stop infringement Pirates of the PPLive TV drama broadcast content, the price of a 50 million; and PPLive also sued to stop unfair competition PPS, and claims 50 million yuan economic loss.
The two sides dispute how much appear to be difficult for some old scores in this.
PPLive of information from the show in September last year, a similar measure on Zengzaoyuguo PPS. "At that time occurred four days, 10% of users were deleted", PPLive Tao Chuang of the Sina Technology CEO, said that the good offices of the department in charge, the enmity between the two sides eventually ended in reconciliation.
Signs of reconciliation, this time has not yet revealed. PPLive users are a lot of loss, the last two days, PPLive R & D team continue to work overtime, it would be to alleviate the trend of technology. The PPS president Xu Weifeng also said Sina Technology, PPLive also started a similar initiative in the dark, hinder the operation of PPS software.
PPLive denied this claim, but a slight hint of that, do not want to end up in a lose-lose.
Each other will react
In the video industry, referred to PPS and PPLive when "two PP" argument. In this time of the battle, the two PP seems intent on staggered body position, and do not react, but repeatedly shot.
The dispute started when the PPLive open when the first shot, PPS immediately responded that the other party in the fuzzy focus of debate is the core of both copyright piracy broadcast problem. The PPLive did not think so, do not want too much talk about the matter. PPLive appears to be in copyright issues resolved by other means.
Tao Chuang according to the statement, this is not a simple war of words copyright, but about the survival of the event. Tao Chuang said that the two users overlap part of the PP about one-third of the total, the number in the millions of levels. And the results are PPLive trips out five years, "not easy to accumulate users, we can not remain indifferent."
On the other hand, PPLive to PPS stop malicious competition, Xu Weifeng also unmoved. Xu Weifeng said on the SAN, PPS before making the appropriate measures, has been a rigorous study to determine this is not too much legal risk.
In fact, both sides are waiting for the other first concession, even though their formal communication is almost zero.
Sina technology with communication, Xu Weifeng said the dispute on the right and wrong, and Vincent Tao can sit down to discuss the matter, after all we are all being in the video industry. The Tao Chuang also said they would not have refused. Whatever the outcome, the two PP's fight in, it seems will continue.