How a Chinese website for pirated TV shows became a cultural touchstone for millennials
Updated 3:03 AM ET, Wed March 3, 2021
When Bill Liang realized that popular video download and streaming service Renren Yingshi might be gone for good his heart sank.
The website, also known as YYeTs.com, was how the 24-year-old film school student was able to watch hundreds of episodes of pirated American TV shows when he was growing up in northern China.
But the site one of China s largest, longest-running and last-remaining destinations for pirated, subtitled foreign content was shuttered on February 3 as part of a sweeping police clampdown on piracy. While the website is still live, none of its services work anymore.
How a Chinese website for pirated TV shows became a cultural touchstone for millennials
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