Basic Information
Chinese name: grass pomegranate
Aliases: Caoliu Community, Caoliu Community
Type: Adult website
The Caoliu community was established in November 2006, and the community officially obtained a fixed domain name and address in April 2007. The forum server is set up in Colorado, USA, and the actual controllers are several Chinese-Americans. Caoliu adopts an irregular invitation registration system. As of 2013, the number of forum members exceeded 200,000. The site is inaccessible in mainland China due to adult content. In May 2015, the Caoliu Forum claimed that the website was hacked, the website was paralyzed, the data was almost lost, the possibility of recovery was very small, and the website would be temporarily closed or permanently closed.
development path
Due to the involvement of adult content and sensitive content, Cao Liu has always been the target of the Chinese government's ban. The Chinese domestic defenders of the "Cao Liu Community" were sentenced by the court in April 2009 to 3 years' imprisonment, suspended for 3 years, for the crime of disseminating pornographic materials for profit. And a fine of 5,000 yuan. However, the operation of the "Caoliu Community" has not been terminated. While constantly being blocked, the address is constantly being changed, and members are updated in a timely manner through various channels.
Since its servers are located abroad, the main method of the Chinese government to deal with it is to block domain names, but the development model of Cao Liu is to directly abandon domain names, which is actually a very dangerous way. If people don't remember your domain name, it's impossible to continue the traffic to this website. But the operation mode of Caoliu is that it leases many different domain names, possibly tens of thousands, and these domain names are constantly updated on its release page, which may be a temporary webpage, such as Yahoo! 's blog or Sina's blog, keep scrolling the domain names that are not blocked. The cost of renting a domain name is very low, probably around a few dollars per person.
content source
The video sources of the Caoliu community exist in the form of commodities in Japan, Europe and the United States and other countries. Generally, local Chinese buy CDs, and then transcode them into popular file formats such as AVI or RMVB on the Internet. After making them into seeds, upload them to pornographic websites to provide P2P. Download, these people belong to the "publisher".
Few of the "film publishers" are voluntary, and most of them still receive fee subsidies from the operators of pornographic websites, and the latter use the videos they bring to update the content to attract users to download, spread, and pay. Some users use these seeds as resources and share them with the Caoliu community.
Website Features
Community members reply to the main post with "1024", which is a feature of the Caoliu community; members of the community "novice on the road" level can only post or reply once every 1024 seconds (approximately 17 minutes), because the time interval is long, so Novices will be relatively cautious every time they post.
The method of replying to posts with "1024" is quietly becoming popular in other forums. In addition to the meaning of top posts, it also implies: "I am from Caoliu". In addition, "1024" has the meaning of "1GB", which is homophonic with the Chinese "first-class stick", which is an affirmation of the main post.
The Caoliu Festival, also known as the 1024 Caoliu Festival, is on October 24 every year. It is planned and celebrated by netizens spontaneously. It belongs to a specific festival for netizens who often visit the Caoliu community.
