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Baidu plots to divide and conquer music industry

Killing three generals with two peaches The following article by Zhang Zhiyuan was translated from the original Chinese article by the Music 2.0 blog. The article, and an introduction by the translator, are republished here with permission. Baidu... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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