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12/22/2024 11:23:22 pm

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HBO Cuts Cable Cord, Will Launch Standalone Service in 2015

HBO is preparing a cable-free broadband subscription service in 2015, offering their TV shows to broadband-only and international audiences for the first time.

The new regulation will affect companies like Youku Tudou, which operates one of China's most popular video-streaming services.

China Cracks Down on Online Streaming of Foreign TV

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.

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