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China cracks down on music and book sellers
THE GLORIOUS PEOPLES REPUBLIC of China's government and its leading search engine Baidu are cracking down on product counterfeiters and copyright infringers.
According to Business China, the country's Ministry of Culture announced that it will investigate and punish 52 music sellers that provide music without authorisation, with Google, Sohu.com and Sina Corp named as infringers. A previous investigation involved 237 companies.
Reuters said that China's largest search engine, Baidu will introduce so-called 'anti-piracy' technology in May for documents and books alleged to infringe copyrights. Currently trouncing Google in the China search engine market with about a 70 per cent share, Baidu is trying to counter accusations that it is too relaxed about copyright infringement.
The technology is supposed to detect copyright-infringing content and reject anything dodgy that people try to upload. Baidu has faced legal action and criticism, particularly due to its MP3 music search, which makes it pretty easy to search for and download unauthorised copies of music files.
The Chinese state is keeping its beady eyes on Baidu, unlike other music providers. The company said it is holding talks with record labels, but the approach won't be the same as the technology used to reject copyright infringing books.
China is also cracking down on counterfeiters of physical media like DVD rip-offs of Hollywood movies. But there is one big problem - due to censorship policies in the country it is harder to get legal copies of American films than illegal ones. µ
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Sounded like somebody in the Chinese governmental bureaucratic food chain didn't get paid (enough.)
Well... I suppose they do have that book thing of their own - and YouTube, which can be misused for free speech.
making it felony is stupid (I bet this would render all of us criminals). in either case I hope you John will cover the costs of these countless "felons" staying in prisons (or maybe you own one of private correction facilities - in that case it's all business to you).
Any means that reduces piracy and or prosecutes pirates is a good thing. Now that countries are making it a felony to pirate, a lot more dirtbags will be going to prison.