Chinese search engine agrees to remove pirate links
22 July 2005
China's biggest internet search engine is reportedly seeking a US public listing.
Baidu.com has agreed to remove links to thousands of internet websites offering pirated music, the Financial Times reports.
Leading Chinese digital rights management company R2G, which tracks piracy and manages licences for music publishers, claimed that Baidu had responded to complaints it made based on recently strengthened copyright regulations.
The weblinks to pirated MP3 music files will now be taken off Baidu's music search platform.
R2G chief operating officer Scarlett Li told the FT that Baidu had taken out weblinks to more than 3,000 music files of a single popular Chinese song alone and was looking into links to more than 50,000 files.
Baidu announced recently that it is seeking an initial public offering worth up to $80 million.
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