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- johndi, on 12/21/2007, -1/+44This is China's way of saying thanks for being cooperative, but you got us bad press so here's your punishment.
- 1800151100, on 12/21/2007, -2/+38While Baidu has a MP3 search in its start page? Isn't this hypocrisy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu - skaspud, on 12/21/2007, -4/+33the chinese need to calm down with their internet powers.
i heard you cant do crap there. - Hangly, on 12/21/2007, -0/+18I live in China. Just so you know, there's no legitimate media to be had anywhere here. Even a lot of the books in major bookstores are pirated. Those DVD's in the nice packaging at the grocery stores? Pirated.
So the choices are pretty much piracy or nothing. - DefaultGen, on 12/21/2007, -1/+18I found a torrent using google the other day, I should probably alert the MPAA or something.
- superjarvo, on 12/21/2007, -2/+18Yen is Japanese you fool! Yuan, or Renminbi is the currency in China.
Also, DVD vendors on the street make a killing. There is one guy at my local supermarket that sells at least 100 or so a day. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 12/21/2007, -0/+13It's part of a larger PR battle.
Now that the USA has left them an opening, you're going to start hear a lot more from China.
It's the same thing with the Olympics, they would have been in Toronto, Canada, but Chinese officials suggested that a Bejing location would be help fight human rights violations. (So they got picked)
But don't go there and mention Tibet. Unless you want to rot in a Chinese prison for the rest of your life. - rjn17960, on 12/21/2007, -6/+18From the article: "The IFPI say that when sites like Yahoo! and Baidu - or even Google - deep-link “to hundreds of thousands of pirate tracks” they are “a huge drain on efforts to develop a legitimate music market in China.”
China has a legitimate music market? Tell that to the guys selling CDs and DVDs for a couple of yen on the street. - CVL4317, on 12/21/2007, -1/+13next, China against human right violations.
- Harbinger67, on 12/21/2007, -1/+11China never cares about anything unless it suits them.
Fix'd. - rotarychainsaw, on 12/21/2007, -1/+11Thats the fun part, Baidu is the home team, so they can call out the legal favors.
- rssolo23, on 12/21/2007, -0/+10yeah seriously, i thought the same thing. It's like CHINA comes in out of nowhere
- Ghoztt, on 12/21/2007, -0/+10....as China ignores their own rampant DVD & Music black markets.
- InfiniteNothing, on 12/21/2007, -2/+12To be fair, you also can't infringe here either
- doshindude, on 12/21/2007, -0/+10the "Vii" comes to mind...
- njection, on 12/21/2007, -2/+11Damn 29 Diggs, TorrentFreak must have Digg on Speeddial.
- systemflaw, on 12/21/2007, -1/+10China never cares about copyright unless it suits them.
- Hangly, on 12/21/2007, -0/+9Sorry man. That stuff has better packaging, and it *looks* legit, but it's still not legit. If there is truly legit stuff (complete with identifying hologram, etc) I have never seen it and couldn't tell you where to find it.
Lenovo, the computer company, uses pirated software. They have no choice. Legit copies aren't available in stores and Microsoft won't give them MSDN accounts because of the piracy problem. So they have no choice but to pirate. And this is a major global corporation! - inactive, on 12/21/2007, -4/+13man, yahoo has been tanking pretty solidly for the past couple years
- inactive, on 12/21/2007, -2/+10"Yahoo! China - partly owned by one the world’s most prominent internet businesses, Yahoo!"
Thank you. I would have never figured that out. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 12/21/2007, -0/+6The idea is to undermine foreign business, in favor of local business. Where it suits them.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 12/21/2007, -0/+6Except Human Rights have actually gone worse in China since. (Don't believe me, ask any of the major international human rights orgs). Of course China's official stance is that they've got better human rights than even the USA so... I guess they just outright lied just to get the olympics.
- sajnikanth, on 12/21/2007, -0/+6It's strange that the same courts exonerated Baidu
- opt4freedom, on 12/21/2007, -1/+6China: a country that has no free speech yet supports copyright; Now that's irony.
- nastajus, on 12/21/2007, -0/+5Shh.
- sajnikanth, on 12/21/2007, -0/+4I live in China & I second that
- nastajus, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3Google sells Sponsored Ads. Those little blurbs of text people often usually don't read with searches. While the clickthrough rate is a tiny percentage, even at 1% it somehow generates a few cents with every click, enough to bring in interesting income.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3Absolutely considering China's Baidu search engine, the most popular there, has an MP3 search feature designed to do exactly what Yahoo is found guilty of.
Heck I use it from time to time to get MP3 songs, it does it extremely well. Its also great for direct linking warez. - metamorfoza, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3wtf dude?! did you just woke up from 2005?
- vorsicht, on 12/21/2007, -1/+4Hello kettle this is China. They have a message for you
- protogenxl, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3I sentence you to be burned at the stake.
- inactive, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3You can also say that Yahoo sells something then. They sell "page views". The basically sell ads too. Not at hte same level of Google. Google is like a supplier. Yahoo is more like a store owner. They "buy" the ads from a supplier and resell them.
Regardless, the notion that you are not doing well if you don't sell anything is silly. Facebook doesn't sell anything. MySpace doesn't sell anything.
Also, the notion that Yahoo is in trouble. They are doing fine...again...being the number 1 site on the internet is not exactly struggling. - inactive, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3So what - AOL in the UK is owned by Carphone Warehouse.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 12/21/2007, -1/+3Yahoo! doesn't actually have a real product.
Webmail? Internet Search?
They don't really sell much of anything. I think that's the problem. - idiotwithastick, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2China, with some of the most capitalist free market economy in the world.
- carpespasm, on 12/21/2007, -2/+4well the US government is all for it any more, you never know...
- TheNatMan, on 12/21/2007, -2/+4Baidu's MP3 search has been gutted recently. It still exists in name, but you can't find anything with it. It must have been a victim of these new laws as well. I'm sure, though, that in the wake of Yahoo! and baidu, 400 more sites will spring up offering MP3 search service. And even if they don't, China still has unrestricted, unbridled eMule and torrent access. China's illegal underground is impossible to shut down, least of all when its the Chinese government that is supposed to be doing the cracking down.
- agimat, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2It's China. What would anyone expect?
- inactive, on 12/21/2007, -1/+3Need to know about current affairs and world politics? Just call skaspud!
- inactive, on 12/21/2007, -2/+4Both of which are doing pretty well for Yahoo. What with being the number 1 site on the internet, and all.
Google doesn't sell anything either. Digg doesn't sell anything either. - pickypg, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1No one cares about the actual name of the intentionally undervalued currency. It's the point that matters.
- inactive, on 12/21/2007, -1/+2***** china
- habenneas, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1lynxcache mirror: http://lynxcache.com/Yahoo_Found_Guilty_of_Mass_Co ...
- pickypg, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1What a joke. Whether you buy into the NWO or not, that would mean the NWO is Communist.
- ChrisWalkr, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1I can't crap on the internet either. The bastards.
- nephilimx, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1so noone is allowed to have rights but the goverment? I dont see irony
- ShrimpCrackers, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1They say that because prominent Chinese officials own the other half and get paid. Just like GE China or basically any International major corporation with a "China" after it.
- maths, on 12/22/2007, -0/+1I think most of you have been totally misled by the IFPI's statement which wrongly blames the Chinese law for the exoneration of Baidu. For a more balanced examination of the how the IFPI probably messed up, you should read the article "IFPI wrongly blames Chinese Law for Baidu loss, but wins Yahoo case" at http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/95
- opt4freedom, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Well... you can go to jail for writing a poem about human rights in China, and yet sue under Chinese law if someone republished your poem without permission. You don't find that ironic?
- inactive, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1thats right, nobody cares what the U.S uses for money...
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