Forbes: "China's search engine operator Baidu.com will appeal a recent ruling from a Chinese court ordering it to pay fines for providing MP3 search technology that was deemed to violate copyrights, a company lawyer said."
Baidu was ordered to pay 68,000 yuan (about US$8,400) to Shanghai Busheng, but claims that "since Bucheng only provided Baidu with a list of copyrighted songs and not the links to the infringing websites, 'removal of links to such songs would entail 'filtering' or 'blocking' of any multimedia files containing that same file names as the names of the songs in questions.'...this would have interfered with the rights of other multimedia file owners."
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