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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. 1st? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post baidu

  2. Re:Yah... by putko · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey -- you are right. Where is it? Is it just sloppy editing, or something more insidious?

    Does Slashdot (as a business) have any motive to be pro-Google? Or is it just the editoros/audience who happen to think that way for personal reasons?

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  3. Re:Mod system b0rken, fail to mod me +5, Informati by jurt1235 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess you will score -1 for offtopic, but thanks for the observation.

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