From Danwei:
Update: Tudou is back up, 00:05 Beijing Time, 15 March.
The story about online video site Tudou, recently censured by SARFT takes another twist.
Since early this morning, the site has been offline, offering only the following message in explanation:
Potatoes:
To provide you all with better service, we are migrating and expanding Tudou’s central servers.
Our service will [...]

Source: Danwei
Last night Chinese language portal Netease published an article saying that SARFT had made use of the new online video regulations and ordered popular Chinese video sharing website Tudou to cease operations. The story has been picked up by several bloggers and made its way into English on Fons Tuinstra’s blog and on Pacific [...]

According to Xinhua News Agency (see website of China Daily), China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television bans all foreign cartoons from 5 to 9 p.m. in order to promote domestic product.
China will extend its ban on foreign cartoons during prime time by an hour, its latest initiative to “spur the domestic cartoon industry”, [...]

New York Times reported on “China Steps Up Internet Video Control“.
The online video regulations co-issued by SARFT and MII, which requires all online video service operated by state owned companies, has officially in effect since Jan 31st already. As we expected, the services of Chinese video sharing websites, all run by private companies, haven’t affected [...]

(Source:New York Times)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 30, 2008
BEIJING (AP) — China will take a new step Thursday to tighten control of the Internet when rules go into force limiting online video-sharing to state companies. But regulators, wary of hurting a fast-growing industry, are expected to let private operators work around the restrictions.
The rules are [...]