The Government of China has passed a regulation to bar the uploading and downloading of copyrighted materials via the Internet without the expressed permission of the appropriate copyright holder(s), the Xinhua News Agency reports.The new regulation will be effective on July 1, and it will ban any person from uploading or downloading Internet content, like music, films and video games, for personal or commercial usage, without the copyright owner’s OK, Xinhua reports.The regulation also makes it illegal to manufacture, import and distribute products that can sidestep, or override, copyright-protection technologies, according to Xinhua.The government passed the policy to better address the rights and needs of copyright owners, ISPs and Web surfers, Xinhua reports, and it comes at a time when software and DVD piracy, among other forms, are threatening relations between the United States and China. For related content, read Study: Software Piracy Rate Remains the Same in ’05.Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content BrandPost The future of trust—no more playing catch up Broadcom: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT By Eric Chien, Director of Security Response, Symantec Enterprise Division, Broadcom Mar 31, 2023 5 mins Security BrandPost TCS gives Blackhawk Network an edge with Microsoft Cloud In this case study, Blackhawk Network’s Cara Renfroe joins Tata Consultancy Services’ Rakesh Kumar and Microsoft’s Nilendu Pattanaik to explain how TCS transformed the gift card company’s customer engagement and global operati By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Cloud Computing IT Leadership BrandPost How TCS pioneered the ‘borderless workspace’ with Microsoft 365 Microsoft’s modern workplace solution proved a perfect fit for improving productivity and collaboration, while maintaining security of systems and data. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Microsoft Cloud Computing BrandPost Supply chain decarbonization: The missing link to net zero By improving the quality of global supply chain data, enterprises can better measure their true carbon footprint and make progress toward a net-zero business ecosystem. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 2 mins Retail Industry Supply Chain Green IT Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe