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Baidu Piracy Case - Beijing
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 :DeViLwAsAbi Devilish wasabi dude Date joined: 26 Aug 07Total posts: 111 Location: Earth | 1 Jan 08 at 2:39am Last Edit: 2 Jan 08 at 6:09am We've just received information from Channel Newsasia this morning in the new year. In the recent case of music companies fighting Baidu in courts, Beijing courts sided Baidu. Quote: Channel Newsasia Website Beijing court sides with Baidu in music piracy case Posted: 01 January 2008 0813 hrs BEIJING: A Beijing appeals court has found top Chinese search engine Baidu.com not guilty of property rights infringement for posting links to websites offering illegal music downloads, state media said Monday. The ruling issued Sunday by the People's High Court of Beijing brings to an end a case brought by several major international music labels, including EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal Music, Xinhua news agency reported. The music companies accused Baidu of facilitating illegal downloads without their permission and demanded an apology, suspension of the activity, and 1.67 million yuan (222,666 US dollars) in compensation, it said. The report offered no further details on the ruling. However, a Beijing intermediate court ruled in November that Baidu's links to the music did not constitute infringement as the music was downloaded to the Web servers of third parties, Xinhua said at the time. The rulings appeared to run counter to a decision by another Beijing court late last year, which ordered Baidu to pay a distributor of EMI 68,000 yuan (8,400 US dollars) in compensation for providing such web links. Baidu had argued that the MP3 search engine it provided was the same as other search engines providing links to web pages, news and pictures. As Internet usage has soared in Asia in recent years, the music industry's revenue has fallen dramatically, largely due to MP3 downloads from unauthorised sources. - AFP/ac From: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/320117/1/.html I agree that it's wrong to download songs illegally. But what now? Baidu is just a MP3 search engine, like any other webpage, photo, video search engines. If Baidu were to be sued for piracy, why not Google Video Search or Yahoo! Videos being sued for illegals materials?! They are also indexed and put up links to those kind of dirty sites! Google Video Search and Yahoo! Videos also give us links to song downloads , why aren't they sued?! Baidu merely searched and and provide links to the website. Those music companies should have just sued those webmasters that Baidu provided the website links with!! Instead Baidu could have helped those music companies in searching and eliminating 3rd party illegal songs download website by providing them with the DIRECT links!! guys, pen down your thoughts on this. --- Blog : http://demandedcleric.blogspot.com/ Betapod profile : http://betapod.net/DeViLwAsAbi do not enter http://cloneofdc.blogspot.com/  What's the meaning of this!? what happened to smarter child? |
 @Hellclanner i love betaPod :) Date joined: 25 Apr 07Total posts: 525 Location: Woodlands, Singapore | RE: Baidu Piracy Case - Beijing yes i strongly agree that Baidu should be treated as fairly as any other search engines. they merely provided more service such as lyrics search and playing the song via Windows Media Player plugin from the 3rd party server. plus, the 3rd party servers are not giving them money or what?!! |
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