The Research On The Protection Of Consumers' Rights And Interests Under The Environment Of Internet

Since the 1990s the Internet begins a rapid development, and now it has become the important inform infrastructure to promote the development of economic and the progress of social to the world. Nowadays, the Internet has penetrated into political, economic, cultural and other aspects. People have a deep connection with Internet and almost cannot leave this virtual world. Along with the development of information technology, the network economy brings a great influence to people's life. As a kind of transactions, the online transaction now becomes a very important choice in daily life. In January 2011, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) issued the"27th China Internet Network Development Statistics Report"(from China Internet Network Information Center), the report shows that the scale of China's Internet users has surpassed 450 million, and increased 7330 million compared with the end of 2009; the Internet penetration rate rose to 34.3%, the rate is increased by 5.4 percentage compared with 2009. The protections of consumers'rights and interests in online transactions become more and more important in such a large scale. In developed countries, the protections of network consumers' rights and interests have a great develop, but in China is still in the development stage.In 2010, the Internet world in China broke"a nuclear war"—the war between Shenzhen Tecent Company and Beijing Qihu Company. In the war, hundreds of millions of Internet users have been involved in this trade war, which are unknowingly involved. During the period, as the consumers in the Internet economy their legal rights and interests have been enormously infringed. This paper is based on the analysis of the case between the Tencent Company and Qihu Company which lead to the problems of the protections of consumers'rights and interests under the environment of Internet. This paper is constituted with six parts: part one, a detailed analysis about the case, and the reactions from different aspects; part two, the definitions about concepts that refers in the case, including the online transactions, consumers, Internet consumers and the protection on the rights and interests of the Internet consumers, etc.; part three, the theoretical basis of the protection of consumers'rights and interests under the environment of Internet, contains economic and law sides; part four, the analysis about the importance of the protection of consumers'rights and interests under the environment of Internet from angle of philosophy, jurisprudence and sociological; part five, the analysis about consumers'rights and interests that infringed in the case, and some proposals are put forward. These rights include the right of security, the right of knowing, the right of options, the right of fair trading, and the right of indemnity; part six, some proposals are put forward about the protection of consumers'rights and interests under the environment of Internet.This paper is a case-based one, which aims to a deep analysis about the protection of consumers'rights and interests under the environment of Internet; hope to play a positive role for the construction of China's online economy.