Big Music sues Yahoo China
p2pnet.net news:- Big Music is going after Yahoo China for allegedly providing “illegal” downloads.
“The plaintiffs include Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, and they are suing Alibaba, which runs Yahoo China, for a total of RMB5.5 million for their combined economic losses,” says China CRS. “They are also asking Alibaba to stop having Yahoo China infringe on their copyrights.”
Led by the the Big 4 music cartel’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry), “companies including EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music and Universal Music are suing Yahoo China for about Rmb5.5m ($710,000) in damages – in spite of losing a similar case against Baidu.com, the Chinese internet search company, last year,” says the Financial Times.
“The move highlights the determination of record companies to pile legal pressure on internet companies globally that they believe are making their songs available to users without approval.”
The IFPI’s complaint centres on Yahoo China’s music search which “allows users to easily find and listen to or download music available on the Chinese internet” and the ” vast majority” of which is “pirated,” says the story, adding:
“In January, EMI pulled out of the IFPI lawsuit against Nasdaq-listed Baidu, with the two companies agreeing instead create a new music service instead.
“Under their new ’strategic partnership’ EMI and Baidu are to share revenues from the new advertising-supported free online music streaming service hosted on a special section of Baidu’s website.”
Also See:
China CRS – Music Companies Target Alibaba’s Yahoo China For Illegal Downloads, March 7, 2007
Financial Times – Music industry group to sue Yahoo China, March 6, 2007
If your Net access is blocked by government restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at thIs the end (of the Net) nigh?zze University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, here for the p2pnet download, and here for details. And if you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.
rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php | | And use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
March 7th, 2007 at 11:13 am
It’s an indexing site for pete’s sake.
Stop trying to conform the way the internet works to your old bussiness oractices. Go after the real ‘pirates’ yourself, and stop expecting everyone else to do your work for you!!!!
yes,yes we know the answer to that, ….
‘but,but…. that might mean redirectiond funds from the exec bonus pool to actual work related stuff….. we can’t do that, bonuses are very important in, we might lose a few execs if we did that’
suck it up buttercup
March 8th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Well, at least this explains why Singingfish was called off by AOL last year. They probably wouldn’t want this to have happened had the company continued to exist.