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China Cracks Down on Online Streaming of Foreign TV

dweisman   |

Sep 12, 2014 01:09 AM EDT

It's about to become much harder finding favorite U.S. and foreign TV shows on Chinese online video streaming sites. Beijing issued new rules this week requiring foreign television productions to get a so-called film screening license before airing programming. New regulations also will limit foreign content on Chinese video-streaming sites to 30 percent of their overall content.