A civil judgment issued by China Judicial Documents Network showed that NetEase found that the anchor named "Tang Mouguang" on the Douyu website to provide live broadcast services of NetEase comics to the unspecified public, and record the live broadcast content as a video and upload it to the defendant’s platform, which had not been legally authorized. NetEase sent a notice on July 25, 2018, requesting the defendant to stop infringing the rights of NetEase comics. On September 26, 2018, NetEase discovered that the anchor "Tang Mouguang" still broadcasted the NetEase comic "School Uncanny" and uploaded the live video of the comic on the Douyu platform, and the defendant did not follow the notice letter to provide "Tang Mouguang"’s identity information and income information to the plaintiff.

NetEase, therefore, sued Douyu to court. Based on the evidence presented by both parties, the Guangzhou Internet Court determined that the plaintiff, NetEase, had the right to disseminate the information through the Internet for the copyrighted work in the case, and had the right to sue in its own name against the violation of the right to disseminate the information through the Internet; the defendant, Douyu, was sued the infringing video does not only provide network technical services such as information storage space services but should bear infringement liability for the act of disseminating the copyrighted works involved in the case in the alleged infringing video. Based on various factors, the court determined that the defendant Douyu Company should compensate the plaintiff NetEase for economic losses of 8,000 yuan (including reasonable expenses).

In the end, the Guangzhou Internet Court ruled as follows: the defendant Wuhan Douyu Network Technology Co., Ltd. shall compensate the plaintiff Guangzhou Netease Computer System Co., Ltd. for economic losses of 8,000 yuan (including reasonable expenses) within ten days from the date of legal effect; rejected the plaintiff Guangzhou NetEase Computer Systems Co., Ltd. other claims.