On August the 18th, in China, the Hangzhou Cyber Civil Court heard its first civil trial, dealing with a copyright infringement case between a novelist and a web company that offered her novel to its online subscribers without her permission. All the actors of the trial met via video chat.  

The Judge presiding over the case was indeed conducting the hearing from a Hangzhou-based courtroom, equipped with technological facilities allowing the members of the public to watch a projection of the video, while a computer program transcribed the minute of the trial.