For the past few months, I have been uploading movies to a friend’s Baidu cloud storage. The files were either MP4 or MKV files, plus the occasional SRT file for English subtitles. She lives in Beijing and a lot of movies are not shown in China. Some movies are banned due to censorship, others do not make the quota cut.
At first, all the files were uploading fine. I have a VPN running 24/7 on my PC from Private Internet Access (PIA) for privacy reasons. Having the VPN active did not affect the upload. A few weeks ago, I tried to upload a few movies and the SRT files were blocked, but the large movie files were transferred. I tried uploading a PDF of a translated book (Red Roulette) to test further, but my friend got a warning message about inappropriate content when she tried to open the file. This is extra concerning since the pages were images and not text.
Today, I tried to upload a few more files. This time, nothing would upload, not even the MP4 or MKV files. Thinking this may be more censorship, I disabled the VPN and suddenly the movie files were uploading. The SRT files with English subtitle text were still erroring out so maybe the CCP is blocking everything with characters. I was not sending anything political or subversive. They were just the most recent James Bond films with Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
Perhaps the restrictions and censorship will reduce after XJP gets his third term as emperor on October 16th.
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Hey, what if I ZIP all the SRT files in a binary…
Nope, that did not work.
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