Tudou, Tangwei and SARFT

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 [...]

Tudou: online video problems

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 [...]

CCTV-China goes online for Beijing Olympics

China’s national television broadcaster, CCTV, is teaming up with two Internet ventures to exploit the Beijing Olympics’ status as the first Summer Games expected to attract droves of online viewers, reports the Wall Street Journal.
CCTV announced yesterday that it is working with the MySpace China social-networking site and online-video site Tudou.com to run an interactive [...]