BEIJING (AFP) - China said Thursday it faced "very big difficulties" coping with rampant piracy on the Internet and called for international help to make an ongoing crackdown more effective.
"To evade punishment, pirates often locate their servers in other countries or regions, posing very big difficulties for police efforts to carry out crackdown," said Gao Feng, a senior public security ministry official.
"Copyright infringements, by their very nature, are international crimes. To effectively curb such activities, (we) need enhanced international cooperation on law enforcement," he said.
In a campaign launched in August, authorities have investigated 1,001 online copyright infringement cases, more than the combined number in 2005 and 2006, said Yan Xiaohong, the National Copyright Administration vice minister.
Nearly 900,000 yuan (124,000 dollars) in fines was meted out, with 339 illegal websites closed down and 123 servers confiscated, he said.
China has been criticised for seeking to impose curbs on Internet content that are as strict as its restrictions on the print media.
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