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Baidu sued over copyrights again

2 March 2008 18:04 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 3 comments

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.

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iluvendo (Senior Member) 2 March 2008 19:02
Baidu, again with the piracy! Shame on you! [ + quote]
nobrainer (Member) 3 March 2008 4:56
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/ [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 3 March 2008 5:02
borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 20 April 2008 21:19
Seems they did not learn from the first time around. [ + quote]