Massive Cloud‑Storage Crackdown: All Overseas Dramas Banned

On April 10, major Chinese cloud‑storage services began a coordinated purge of unauthorized overseas video files—including American, Korean, and Thai dramas—stored on their platforms. Users were instructed to delete infringing files and sharing links immediately; accounts found violating the policy were blocked and faced legal liability. Subtitle‑group accounts were among those banned.

The purge is part of the “Jianwang 2025” special operation jointly launched by the National Copyright Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Cyberspace Administration of China. The operation, initiated in 2025, targets the “network storage + distribution” sector to strengthen copyright protection for films and TV series, curb illegal distribution, and combat piracy.

According to an industry association, piracy in the long‑series segment alone causes annual losses exceeding 200 billion RMB.

Beyond pure copyright concerns, the spread of unapproved foreign dramas is viewed as a threat to mainstream social values, youth development, and national cultural security. The article cites the Netflix adaptation of “Three‑Body” as misrepresenting Chinese history and the Korean drama “Storm Circle” as portraying China negatively; both were widely disseminated through cloud‑storage channels.

Research presented at the February 28 2026 “Cultural Security and the Rule of Law” conference documented thousands of prohibited foreign dramas containing pornographic, violent, or extremist material, as well as massive volumes of pirated content. These works are organized and distributed at scale via cloud‑storage services and browsers using aggregated lists and encrypted sharing methods.

Experts at the conference called for enforcement with the same determination, intensity, and standards applied to anti‑pornographic crackdowns, advocating a zero‑tolerance, whole‑chain, equal‑punishment approach for platforms.

The consensus indicates that the cloud‑storage industry is entering a stricter compliance era; other platforms are expected to follow, potentially leading to uniform content‑review standards across major services.

From the user perspective, the episode highlighted that data stored on public cloud services is not entirely under user control; platforms can delete files to meet compliance requirements. This realization has spurred interest in private storage solutions such as NAS devices, recalling the 2016 cloud‑storage shutdown wave as a precedent.

Remaining challenges include balancing robust copyright protection with legitimate user needs, simplifying legal subscription models, reducing viewing costs, expanding compliant content sources, and simultaneously safeguarding user privacy and data security.

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近日，网盘行业启动了一轮针对海外影视资源的严格清查行动。
据报道，4月10日开始，部分网盘对平台上存储的美剧、韩剧、泰剧等未经授权的海外影视内容进行全面清理。
平台要求用户立即删除违规资源及分享链接，对违规账号采取清退拉黑、追究法律责任的处罚，部分压制组和字幕组账号已被封禁。
这一行动导致大量公开分享的资源链接一夜之间失效。众多分享资源的博主呼吁用户在极短时间内完成文件备份，否则将面临被自动清理的风险。
据了解，此次行动是为了落实由国家版权局、工信部、公安部和国家网信办四部门联合启动的“剑网2025”专项行动。
该行动自2025年启动，明确将“网络存储+传播”领域的版权整治列为重点，旨在加强对电影、电视剧等视听作品的版权保护，打击非法传播和盗版行为。
近年来，盗版对正版长视频行业造成了巨大冲击。据相关产业协会披露，仅长剧集领域，每年因盗版造成的损失就超过200亿元人民币。
除了版权问题，大量未经审批的境外影视剧通过网盘等平台规模化传播，被认为对社会主流价值观、青少年健康成长以及国家文化安全构成挑战。
实际上，此次网盘行业的清查行动并非毫无征兆，早在一个月前，相关领域的专家就已经发出了明确的预警。
2026年2月28日，中国社会科学院法学研究所举办了“新形势下文化安全法治”研讨会。
研究发现，上千部含有淫秽色情、恐怖暴力等内容的违禁境外影视剧，以及大量盗版影视内容，正通过网盘、浏览器等平台，以片单聚合、加密分享等方式进行组织化、规模化地传播。
部分未经审批的境外剧集夹带特定偏见，通过历史虚无主义或负面叙事，对用户进行潜移默化的认知渗透。比如，奈飞《三体》曲解中国历史、韩剧《暴风圈》丑化中国形象，通过网盘无障碍传播。
针对上述问题，与会专家一致呼吁，要“拿出治理黄色网站那样的同等决心、力度与标准”，从严压实网盘、浏览器等平台的主体责任，坚持“零容忍、全链条、同责同罚”。
这预示着整个网盘行业都将进入一个更严格的合规时代。其他平台也必将跟进，最终可能导致所有主流网盘在内容审查上趋于一致。
而这一事件也让许多用户意识到，存储在公有云网盘中的数据，其生杀大权并不完全掌握在自己手中，平台出于合规要求有权删除用户文件。这在一定程度上推动了部分用户对NAS等私有存储设备的关注。
从用户角度来说，他们付出了金钱和精力，理应获得一个私密、稳定、可控的存储服务。但从平台角度看，在“剑网行动”等高压监管下，平台若对明显的侵权盗版、违禁内容“视而不见”，将面临巨额罚款甚至被勒令关停的风险。2016年的“网盘关停潮”就是前车之鉴。
毋庸置疑，网盘行业已然告别了那个野蛮生长的“资源时代”。未来唯有合规经营才是其唯一出路。平台必须承担起内容审核的主体重任，投入更多的成本，以构建起强大的技术审核系统。
然而，诸多挑战依然严峻。一方面，如何平衡版权保护与用户合理的需求，简化正版会员体系、降低观看成本、扩充合规片源，是根治盗版需求的根本。另一方面，如何在履行审核义务的同时，尊重和保护用户的个人隐私与数据安全，也是平台必须面对的伦理与法律难题。