TelecomAsia: During many of the legal battles between recording studios and technology companies people have claimed that file-sharing programs and websites with links to music files were nothing more than search engines, and asked (in a sarcastic, rhetorical way) why the labels didn't try suing Google or another search engine. Well, now they have..."Music companies Universal, EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and their local subsidiaries are suing China's largest search engine Baidu for allegedly infringing the copyright of hundreds of songs, an AFP report said."
The labels allege that "Baidu has made it easy for users to download illegal copies of their songs via its MP3 search engine".
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