In late November, two of China’s top subtitle sharing sites – Yyets and Shooter.cn – got taken down by the government in an apparent attempt to stop movie piracy. Shooter.cn is dead for good, but Yyets is apparently coming back, although not as a subtitle site. Visiting the site now displays a message saying that the site’s subtitling days are over, but that a “transformation” is coming.
There are no clues as to what that transformation could be, although some connection with the film and television industry seems likely given the site’s past. A countdown timer on the site suggests that the new Yyets will be revealed in early February, so nobody will know for sure until then.
A screenshot of Yyets.com
See: Who killed Shooter.cn: was it the anti-piracy MPAA, or is censorship to blame?
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