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Baidu sued over copyrights again

The giant Chinese search engine Baidu has been sued again, this time by a local music industry group, marking the second time in the last month that the search engine finds itself in legal trouble.

The Music Copyright Society of China and one of its officials, Qu Jingming accuse Baidu of "providing music listening, broadcasting and downloading services in various forms on its Web site without approval, and through unfettered piracy, earning huge advertising revenue on its huge number of hits."



The group goes as far as to say that Baidu's piracy led to the shut down of many up and coming legal online music providers. The group filed the suit in Bejing Court yesterday and alleges that 50 songs were illegally traded. The group wants monetary compensation.

Updates as they become available.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 2 Mar 2008 18:04

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• 3 comments

• iluvendo

  Baidu, again with the piracy! Shame on you!

  2.3.2008 19:02 #1

• nobrainer

  This sounds like "An American plan to bring democracy to the world". What wto sanctions have been threatened to get search engines sued?
  

  The BPI Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
  
  The RIAA Soundexchange Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
  
  The IFPI Are: The same anti consumer lot as listed above!
  
  The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX.
  
  How do you stop anti consumer = its easy purchase only second hand media and avoid their propertarian hobbled by DRM hardware! http://www.boycott-riaa.com/

  3.3.2008 04:56 #2

• borhan9

  Seems they did not learn from the first time around.

  20.4.2008 21:19 #3