Brushing hundreds of millions of times for video videos |

Friends who watch video at all times must only watch the importance of clicks. Users will watch videos based on the number of clicks. The company will collect relevant data based on the number of clicks. However, it has recently discovered that the number of unknown videos has exceeded 100 million, and even climbed. To the hit list, and behind the push may be a well-designed brush flow software. Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court recently held a public hearing of Beijing Aiqiyi Technology Co., Ltd. against Hangzhou, an Information Technology Co., Ltd., Lu Moumou, Hu Moumou The amount of 'brushing' behavior was filed in a civil lawsuit.

iQIYI believes that the three defendants' 'brushing' act violated their legitimate rights and interests, constituted unfair competition, and demanded that the other party compensate for its economic loss of 5 million yuan.

And alleging that this data is crucial for the love of a wife, the site will base on the number of visits, IP addresses, access times, etc. of the video visitors, and then based on the analysis results of these real data, formulate video content recommendations, copyright procurement, advertisements. Cooperation, server layout and a series of business strategies.

iQIYI believes that the defendant, through controlling a large number of domain names, will focus on using the servers in Shanghai to continuously access iQiyi's video content and quickly increase the number of visits to specific video content in a short period of time. According to incomplete statistics, as of February 1, 2017 From June 1st to June 1st, 2017, the three defendants created more than 900 million false video content visits on the iQIYI website. This 'brushing' behavior interfered with the normal functions of the video website and undermined the online video industry. The fair market order violates the generally recognized business ethics of honesty and credit and violates the legal provisions such as the Anti-Unfair Competition Law.

To this end, iQiyi Company requested the court to order Hangzhou Information Technology Co., Ltd. and its key personnel to immediately stop unfair competition, compensate for the economic loss of 5 million yuan, and publish a statement in the relevant media to eliminate the impact.

The defendant argued that Lu Moumou and Hu Moumou’s brush behaviors were job behaviors and did not require external responsibility. Hangzhou Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Iqiyi did not have a competitive relationship. At the same time, they received the plaintiff’s lawsuit. Before, it was not clear that their 'brushing' behavior was suspected of violating anti-unfair competition law, and then stopped related activities.

It is reported that the court will choose to pronounce on the day.