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Baidu Sued for Piracy on Eve of IPO

Posted by timothy on from the little-backrooms-in-copymart dept.

sentanta writes "With an IPO set for Thursday, Baidu.com 'the Chinese Google' was hit with a lawsuit alleging piracy by the makers of The House Of Flying Daggers. The search engine currently has the largest market share in China (Google also owns about 3% of the company), and it is looking to raise ~$100mm from its IPO. This might become the first high profile test of an anti-piracy law passed by China last December, which punishes offenders with up to 7 years in prison."

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  1. Search for the word democracy... by celorfin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and this is what you get.

    The first search term I used was freedom and lots of hits were found. When searching for "democracy", however, it just outright spit out that dialog box. Interesting.