Baido p2p ‘piracy fighter’ claim
p2p news / p2pnet: Communist China, under constant attack by US trade cartels, has been working hard to prove it knows America’s bottom line is the bottom line, with intellectual property high(est) on the list of concerns.
Human rights? Not important.
China’s Baidu.com go into a lot of trouble with Organized Music because “MP3 search” was “the primary boosting factor for Baidu’s high growth,” as Beijing’s China Internet Network Information Center put it.
So Baidu dropped MP3 search and to further appease EMI Group, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and Sony BMG demands, has now added a disclaimer which says the company “fights piracy” and promises to remove links to sites that infringe on copyrights, says the Associated Press, adding:
“However, the site still connects users to outside sites where they can download music.”
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See:-
primary boosting factor – Baidu kowtows to Big Music, October 26, 2005
Associated Press – Baidu.com Adds Copyright Disclaimer, October 27, 2005
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