Renren Video's "full blood resurrection" server may be located in Singapore and South Korea

Renren Video temporarily shuts down to clean up content, and Shooter Network officially shuts down

After the restoration, the IP addresses of Renren Video were located in Singapore and South Korea after the domain name resolution. This means that the servers of Renren Video are likely to be in the above two places.

A week after Renren Video said goodbye, it is now "fully revived".

Starting from the afternoon of November 28, many netizens found that Renren Video can be accessed normally from China. The reporter of The Paper logged into the site on the afternoon of the 29th and found that video resources or subtitles can be downloaded. For example, American TV series such as "The Big Bang Theory" and "The Walking Dead" can download videos and subtitles, and movies such as "Lucy" and "Divergent" can download subtitles, but "due to copyright issues, resource downloads are not available."

A week ago, on November 21, Renren Video became inaccessible.

The next day, Renren Yingshi announced that "the website is cleaning up content" and shutting down. It said, "We have always maintained an attitude of learning and sharing, translating excellent overseas TV series and open courses from world-renowned universities, hoping to be helpful to everyone."

It is reported that the Copyright Bureau seized five servers of Renren Film and Television on the same day for "unauthorized translation of film and television works."

Renren Video declined to comment.

It is worth noting that Renren Video posted a Weibo on the morning of November 28, suggesting that the site had resumed access. The Weibo post read: "invictus maneo." Some netizens pointed out that this was a line from the end of the 9th episode of the 4th season of the American TV series "Person of Interest", which means "I remain unconquered" in Latin.

Renren Yingshi, founded by a group of overseas students in Canada, was listed as a major piracy website by the Motion Picture Association of America in October. The association said Renren Yingshi provided links to 67 other websites in China, including some that provided pirated videos.

Later, Renren Yingshi’s Weibo account said that due to copyright pressure, the website would completely remove all download links of non-copyrighted resources by the end of November. However, the Weibo post was quickly deleted.

This is not the first time that Renren Video has been "resurrected". In 2010, the government cleaned up a large number of websites providing illegal videos, and Renren Video was temporarily closed.

According to data from Comscore, a US web traffic analysis company, in August 2014, Renren Video had more than 1.8 million unique visitors.

Sagittarius.com, which was inaccessible on the same day as Renren Films, is still inaccessible at present. The website said, "Let go. The era of needing Sagittarius.com has gone." Sagittarius.com is a website that provides subtitle downloads.

"There is no way." Xu Mohan, the legal representative of Shooter.com, told The Paper that there is no way to restore Shooter.com. He was unwilling to disclose more information.

People familiar with the matter told The Paper that Sagittarius.com had received investment from Shanda Interactive in its early days.

Renren Video is gone again! We have to wait for the international version

According to reports, the Renren Films website, which had just been restored, was once again unable to be opened. Some netizens were lucky enough to open the homepage of Renren Films and found that its announcement had changed again.

Previously, Renren Yingshi’s announcement was “the website has been closed and the content is being cleaned up”, but now it has become “Renren Yingshi’s Chinese website is officially closed”, which means that the Renren Yingshi we are familiar with is gone forever.

Regarding the international version, the announcement shows that it is still under discussion and the specific release date is unknown. In addition, Renren Films also stated that they have not enabled other domain names and clients at present, and all websites accessed through other domain names are counterfeit websites.

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