Alibaba said it had made the proposal with the support of the founding shareholders of Youku, including Victor Koo, Chengwei Capital and their affiliates.

It also owns ( directly, for a change) a quarter of US-listed Chinese online video site, Yukou Tudou.

阿里巴巴拥有（这次有所不同，是直接拥有）美国上市的中国在线视频网站优酷土豆（Yukou Tudou）四分之一的股权。

Chinese censors recently pulled four popular U.S. television shows from the Web, including one, 'The Good Wife,' which Youku had the rights to.

中国审查机构最近将四部美剧从国内视频网站下架，优酷土豆拥有其中《傲骨贤妻》（The Good Wife）的播放权。

Over the weekend Chinese authorities pulled from Youku Tudou, Sohu.com Inc. and other streaming websites a number of hits, including U.S.-made shows 'The Good Wife' and 'The Big Bang Theory.'

在刚刚过去的周末，中国国家新闻出版广电总局勒令优酷土豆（Youku Tudou）、搜狐（Sohu.com Inc.）等视频网站下线多部热播剧，其中就包括美剧《傲骨贤妻》（The Good Wife）和《生活大爆炸》（The Big Bang Theory）。

The U.S. entertainment giant unveiled a deal Thursday with Youku Tudou, the flagship streaming video service of Jack Ma's Alibaba Group, for worldwide rights outside of China to Day and Night, a 32-episode detective drama series.

周二，美国娱乐业巨头奈飞，和马云阿里巴巴旗下的第一大流量视频网站优酷土豆签订协议，买下32集侦探剧《白夜追凶》（Day and Night）的海外版权。

Youku Chief Technology Officer Yao Jian said the company had to remove uploads of Columbia Pictures''2012,' which was a box-office hit in China last year, while it was still in theaters.

优酷网首席技术长姚键说，该公司不得不在哥伦比亚电影公司（Columbia Pictures）出品的《2012》仍在影院上映期间，移除上传的该片拷贝。《2012》去年在中国是票房大片。

Victor Koo, chief executive of Youku, a video portal, says the average user spends an hour each day on his website.

视频门户优酷的首席执行官victor koo（古永锵）称，平均每个用户每天在其网站上花一个小时。

When Youku, China's largest online-video company, listed its shares on December 8th its stock jumped by 161%, the biggest gain by a newcomer to the NYSE for five years.

当中国最大的在线视频公司优酷（Youku）公司于12月8日上市的时候，其股价跃升了161%，使得这样一个新来的成了纽交所（NYSE）5年以来最大的赢家。

Youku's move to crack down on pirated content comes years after Google Inc.'s YouTube underwent similar reforms in 2007 after facing legal challenges from copyright owners over clips posted to the site without permission.

在优酷网打击盗版内容的行动出台前数年，版权所有者曾指控谷歌（Google Inc.）旗下的YouTube未获得同意就在网站上发布视频片段，YouTube随后在2007年进行了类似的改革。

Much like Youku, Tudou, the second-largest online video site, is also expanding its exclusive content.

和优酷非常相似的中国第二大在线视频网站土豆网（tudou）也在扩充独家内容。

In the latest in a string of entertainment industry acquisitions, Alibaba said Monday it will jointly take an 18.5% stake in New York-listed Youku Tudou for$ 1.22 billion, alongside an investment vehicle linked to Chairman Jack Ma.

阿里巴巴集团周一宣布，阿里巴巴将与马云（Jack Ma）创立的一家基金联手斥资12亿美元收购纽约上市公司优酷土豆18.5%的股权。为进军文化娱乐产业，阿里巴巴展开了一连串的并购活动，入股优酷土豆是其最新举措。

Youku is the dominant force in Chinese online video-effectively the YouTube of the People's Republic.

优酷在中国网络视频中举足轻重，实际上如同中国的YouTube。

The panel also featured Will Braden, proprietor of the YouTube channel Henri le Chat Noir, who makes money off of ad revenue and tie-in merchandise.

座谈小组也以优酷Henri le Chat Noir频道的所有者Will Braden为特色，他通过广告和搭卖商品来获取收益。

The Continent, another big budget film partly financed by Youku, has made Rmb627m this year and is still in cinemas.

今年，优酷参与投资的另一部大预算电影是《后会无期》（The Continent），该片的票房已达6.27亿人民币，目前仍在上映。

Founded in June 2006, some 16 months after YouTube of the US, Youku has since shifted from sourcing content from its users to making it itself or buying it from big media groups.

优酷创建于2006年6月，比美国的YouTube晚约16个月。自那以来，优酷的经营模式已从由用户提供内容，转向自己制作内容或从大型媒体集团购买。

The Chinese ecommerce giant is seeking to take full control of New York-listed Youku Tudou, the Chinese video hosting site in which it acquired a stake in 2014.

中国最大电商巨头阿里巴巴（Alibaba）正寻求全面控股在纽约上市的中国视频网站优酷土豆（Youku Tudou）。阿里巴巴曾在2014年入股优酷土豆。

Mr Koo said Youku had$ 1.6bn in cash to spend after a$ 1.2bn investment by ecommerce group Alibaba in April.

古永铿表示，在今年4月获得电子商务集团阿里巴巴（Alibaba）的12亿美元投资后，优酷土豆目前可支配的现金高达16亿美元。

Tudou saw its loss widen in the first half over rising operating costs and has lost market share relative to Youku and Sohu.

土豆在今年上半年由于经营成本上升，亏损出现扩大，市场份额相对于优酷和搜狐（sohu）出现下降。

Youku says it will distribute copies of the software to the Motion Picture Association and approved rights owners.

优酷网说，公司将向美国电影协会（Motion Picture Association）和获准的版权所有者发放软件拷贝。

More than 9 per cent of shares of video streaming site Youku are being shorted.

视频网站优酷网（Youku）逾9%的股票正被卖空。

Youku gets more than 15 million unique visitors a day, or almost four million more than its main Chinese competitor, Tudou, according to iResearch.

据艾瑞咨询集团（iResearch）的数据，优酷网每天的独立访问量（unique visitor）超过1500万，较主要中国竞争对手土豆网高出近400万。