Follow-up investigation on the proliferation of pirated online courses——

　　Ripping "artifact" has become a hot commodity

　　On August 17th, after this newspaper published a report on "Piracy of Online Lessons Started Rampantly on the Internet", the reporters also found after follow-up investigation that there were also pushers behind the rampant of piracy online classes-some people on the Internet were taking the opportunity to promote ripping machines and decoding screen recording software. .

　　Phenomenon

　　Ripping software online hot sale

　　"We dare not give online lessons to our children, otherwise, as soon as the morning is finished, we will see someone selling the course videos online in the afternoon." Teacher Zhao, who teaches calligraphy, called the reporter after reading the report.

Teacher Zhao said that during the winter vacation last year, parents wanted to let their children practice calligraphy with the teacher because they could not start off-line classes, so she offered the children 10 free hard pen calligraphy and soft pen calligraphy lessons, each of which lasted 15 minutes. Around, five or six new characters are taught in each class. The teacher will first talk about the structure of the character, the evolution of the font, and finally teach the children how to write specific strokes.

　　Although there are only 15 minutes of class, Teacher Zhao takes three or four hours to record each time, but it will soon be forwarded by some students’ parents, and some people even take it for sale. Teacher Zhao has used other channels. Seeing this lesson package, the content was a copy of her course, one or two voices were still missing, but the price was only 9.9 yuan, and many people bought it, which made her very hurt. "It was originally for the benefit of the students. People don’t respect the teacher’s contribution too much."

　　How did the course video get ripped out?

The reporter found software and ripping machine specially used for ripping on the Internet.

On many e-commerce sales platforms, as long as you enter keywords such as ripping, ripping artifacts, screen recording, etc., hundreds of purchase links will pop up, ranging from screen recording software that can be bought for a few yuan to a few hundred yuan. The ripping machines all use "encrypted video ripping" and "screen video recording" as gimmicks to attract buyers. The reporter checked the sales records of several online stores, and the highest monthly sales volume has exceeded 300.

　　Gimmick

　　Mainly crack encrypted video

　　"As long as it is put on the computer screen, we can rip." The video segmentation and interception software sold by this online store only sells for 10 yuan. The sales staff told reporters that this software can not only rip, but also demosaic and cut the video. "Invalid information" such as the beginning and the end. Even if it is an encrypted video, it can still be cracked, but the price will be higher. "You tell me the name of the encrypted video player in advance, and we will quote again. We have a dedicated technical customer service to connect with you. , Guarantee the ripping effect and invalid refund."

　　The reporter consulted five or six online stores for sales, and the opinions were similar, and the prices were similar. Two of the online stores had monthly sales of over 100, and the monthly sales of the others were also in double digits.

　　After the software is purchased, the technical customer service will remotely guide the buyer to install it.

There is also a ripping machine that can be used directly after purchase, which is also a hot selling item recently.

When the seller of this machine introduces the product, he does not need to install drivers or software on the computer, and will not be forced to close by the encryption program as the main selling point, thus declaring that "school network courses, online courses...all encryption types can be high-definition Rip".

　　Statement

　　Disclaimer cannot be "disclaimed"

　　While promoting these products, each online store also gave explanations such as "only provide ripping software teaching services" and "products are for family use only", stating that "the violation of rights due to dissemination has nothing to do with our store" in an attempt to evade responsibility .

However, the existence of these products does objectively stimulate the increase of pirated videos. Once there are problems, it is in fact difficult to escape liability for infringement.

　　"The point is not whether it can be decrypted technically, but whether it is "knowingly"." Song Jihu, a lawyer at Beijing Yikang Law Firm, analyzed that because ripping machines and ripping software are only tools, so for online sales, sales of ripping machines, ripping software The behavior must be analyzed in detail. For those who know that the actions of others are recording and reselling for profit, but still provide others with the ripping machine, it is a joint infringement, and the act of providing the ripping machine is the provision of tools, and they have jointly infringed on the network. The copyright of the course producer must jointly bear civil liabilities such as stopping the infringement, eliminating the impact, making an apology, and compensating for losses.

If the circumstances of the act are serious, it constitutes a crime of copyright infringement, and the act of providing the ripping machine is a joint crime, and the ripping machine is a criminal tool and should be confiscated.

"Therefore, if you know that someone else has used a ripping machine or ripping software to infringe on the copyright of the online course producer, and you still sell it, even if it is accompanied by a'disclaimer', the behavior of the merchant has violated the law, and the disclaimer is not a'exemption'."

　　Our reporter Zhou Mingjie