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As leading Chinese video sites Tudou and Youku battle on, more reasons emerge for 56.com s downtime

Posted on June 24, 2008

56.com, the third largest online video-sharing site in China, has been offline since June 3rd. The company says the cause is technical problems, via the error message pictured above, but there are two other possible reasons.The first is that the Chinese government simply shut it down to censor content on the site. That possibility has been covered by a number of prominent China bloggers, this publication and now a number of Western media outlets, and has led to speculation that 56.com s mysterious downtime implies new and greater risks for any video site, including market leaders Youku...

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