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Baidu.com hotbed for 'piracy'

THREE music industry bodies and several record companies have jointly vowed to boycott Baidu.com and alleged the biggest Internet search engine in China has become the biggest provider of pirated music in the country. ... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Wed, Jun 04 2008

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