The NGOs also produced a video and posted on ku6.com, a popular Chinese video-sharing website.

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Streaming video sites like Tudou, Ku6, OuOu and 6rooms all began paying fat fees to pipe video files around the country.

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According to data from copyright-fingerprinting start-up Vobile, the number of copyright-infringing videos on some Chinese sites like Ku6 and Youku has jumped more than six-fold between September 2007 and September 2008, as seen in the first chart below.

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