The popularity of Baidu.com's MP3 search page has helped make Baidu China's biggest search engine, leaving competitors like Google in the dust. There's a problem, though. Many, probably most, of those MP3 links connect to pirated music and the music companies aren't happy that something so successful is helping rip off their songs. While China's enforcement of intellectual property rights is lax, Baidu's U.S. stock market listing makes it vulnerable there, where enforcement is much stricter.
October 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Like thousands of tech-savvy young Chinese, Samuel Ying regularly checks in at Baidu.com to top-up his music collection from its links to more than 4 million MP3 files.
“The site (allows) me to choose the sort and size of the music files and the speed to download them,” said Ying, 23, a salesman for an international consumer products company in Shanghai. “Compared with other tools, it’s got more options.”
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