China In the Habit of Copying and Redirecting US Sites?

Want to know why US web companies have trouble making it in China? gaz_hayes passed us a link to the blog commiepod, which suggests that successful US websites are targeted by 'Chinese government backed companies.' "These companies copy the site, deploy it on a .cn domain, and then DNS poison or forcefully lower the bandwidth the US site. Just a few weeks ago google.com and google.cn were DNS poisoned across the entire Chinese internet and were being redirected to their Chinese competitor Baidu. This probably explains Google's 3rd quarter market share in China." This is a fairly serious accusation; anyone else have first-hand experiences that would back this up?

fsck china

[FudRucker]

i think the USA should pull the plug on them, (physically remove their intertubes from connecting to the US intertubes)...

Re:quite.

[Anonymous Coward]

I got used to shitty performance, websites suddenly dying for no reason, 30 second delays on some sites and others almost instant.

They use Comcast in China, too?!

Re:They do worse things

[Gigiya]

Yes.

I don't understand

[shbazjinkens]

How come there's no mention of this on slashdot.cn?

Poisoning DNS

[monopole]

I didn't know DNS was susceptible to lead. Maybe they're using GHB.

First Hand

[A Guy From Ottawa]

When I was in China last April and went to slashdot I got redirected to some site all pink and pretty. If I remember correctly it was about ponies. I thought at the time it was strange but now I know it was the gvt.

Re:My stuff got copied

[Anonymous Coward]

Its similar to the muggers in Brixton here in London. When they take your stuff, its a high honour as it means they admire your taste in bling and recognise you as a wealthy individual.