Yahoo! Slammed Over Piracy By Chinese Court

An anonymous reader writes "Setting a precedent likely to have far-ranging consequences, a Chinese court has once again lambasted Yahoo! China over piracy concerns. The search firm is (according to the court) infringing on intellectual property rights by allowing copyrighted materials to be downloaded from the internet via search results. 'John Kennedy, chairman and CEO of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries, or IFPI, said in a statement Thursday. "By confirming that Yahoo China's service violates copyright under new Chinese laws, the Beijing court has effectively set the standard for Internet companies throughout the country."'"

China has piracy concerns...

[Anonymous Coward]

...but no PRIVACY concerns (except when it comes to the government).

Isn't this the same country that recently had a Yahoo China employee jailed for dissidence?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/2031243 [slashdot.org]

All legitimate companies need to leave China until the Chinese government seeks something besides oppression, and the companies seek something besides *just* a profit.

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Re:OH NOZ!

[dwater]

Why is this marked '+5 insightful' when the post specifically says "I don't know about China specifically"...which makes the post irrelevant. The post is at best 'interesting'.

FWIW, I've lived in China for several years and haven't heard of any internet access service provided by Yahoo!. All broadband access I've heard of is provided by CNC, if not directly then by a reseller of some kind.

Re:OH NOZ!

[dwater]

Talk about calling the kettle black. China is probably the largest source of piracy. They really should handle the problem of people selling pirate CDs and DVDs before going after Yahoo for indexing some warez site.

They are going after people selling CDs and DVDs. I've seen numerous DVD stores shutdown in the past year. To start with, the stores were forced to sell them under the counter or out of a back room, but now the stores are *gone*. Admittedly, these stores were near a Holiday Inn, so they're focusing on the more obvious (to westerners, at least) ones, but still.

I know of just one store now, and that is far from any hotels in the middle of an area populated mostly by Koreans. Furthermore, I've recently seen some *real* DVDs in that store. Of course, I don't *know* they're real, and I've not bought any because they're horrendously expensive (compared to salaries here). Even if I did buy them, I still don't know they're real - though I could probably tell to some degree since the English spelling/grammar/etc would be correct (well, it'd be US spelling, but still), and they would actually work without skipping...but who knows for sure? If there's one thing the Chinese are best at in the world (and there isn't just one thing, I'm sure), it's faking stuff and other scams/etc. They're really quite clever.

Of course, you can still buy them on the streets, but the few I've bought from them have been really poor quality (often a camcorder in a cinema).