China’s iQiyi is illegal in Taiwan, NCC saysBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterChinese over-the-top (OTT) service provider iQiyi cannot register as a provider in Taiwan after the Mainland Affairs Council declared it to be an illegal service, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday. Both iQiyi and WeTV were deemed to be illegal Chinese OTT operators in an interdepartmental meeting on Friday last week, officials said, adding that this prohibits them from marketing their services in Taiwan or seeking subscribers. The government plans to block a local server that iQiyi has been using to transmit content to domestic audiences, which would disrupt its content transmission. National Communications Commission spokesman Hsiao Chi-hung speaks at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Transportation Committee in Taipei on March 16. A commission draft act on OTT TV services would require all legal OTT operators to register with the commission, although iQiyi is no longer a legal operator, he said.

Source: Taipei Times May 20, 2020 15:56 UTC