Yahoo! Slammed Over Piracy By Chinese Court 102
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."'"
Hmm... (Score:5, Insightful)
My guess is "no."
Re:Hmm... (Score:2, Insightful)
My guess is "no."
Yeah, especially when you consider that much of the Chinese economy is based on pirated stuff.
If I understand this correctly... (Score:5, Insightful)
"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."
Translation: "The government has staked its claim. It will control the flow of information on the web across the board. This is just a small step."
Irony? (Score:3, Insightful)
Loosely translated... (Score:4, Insightful)
Your... (Score:2, Insightful)
I also think we need to sue Toyota for all the car accidents in the world, the fire/matches for all the destruction in Southern California and god for any and all wars/plagues after 0 BC... WTF?!?
But yeah, this isn't surprising from a country that had a campaign to kill rice eating birds... only to have the locusts devastate their crops the next year.
Re:IS this pay back for the US GOV trying to stand (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:OH NOZ! (Score:5, Insightful)
Heard this argument before (Score:2, Insightful)
This basically settles the opinion IMO that the RIAA's views on copyright infringement is akin to that of the Chinese government.
SCARY!
Now included with your Yahoo search results in China: 10 years hard labor!
Re:OH NOZ! (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't know about China specifically, but they're one of the faster, more reliable broadband services in Japan, and offer something not unlike Verizon FiOS. Including a broadband television service.
i'm shocked (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm from China. According to my knowledge (yes I may be wrong) there is a corrupted and politics-oriented jurisdiction system in China but these judges in Beijing are simply performing the practice of Foolishness, which is very unusual.
And the "new" copyright law... What the fuck is that? I'm not a lawyer but I think I'll be digging in the library for a while in search of the new law. OK if there is really such a piece of crap in our laws there must be some fucking shit in the head of the congressmen or are they using a M$-made statistics software for the put-up-your-hand-and-say-yes-now-please-or-you-are-fucked National Congress?
Yes this law that asks internet search providers to be liable to the contents of their search results, if exists, is suicidal. No matter what's the reason for such a law come into being it would sooner or later kill the whole search engine industry. By then, nobody can perform Web-searches any more, including those fucking law makers themselves. Students and teachers in colleges may no longer search Google scholar, Scirus or even use services like JSTOR or ProQuest. Businesses may no longer find each other over the internet. Communist party may no longer poison or censor Web applications (contributing further to the rate of unemployment).
Maybe I'm wrong but I would still say that there's no reason for such a law to exist, even if we consider the very nature of the Chinese government. Perhaps tomorrow my library would tell me "sorry we no longer provide book search services because we can't be liable of the search results. Those books may contain non-communism-compliant material or other law-infringing contents."
Nuts.
Re:Nonsense! (Score:2, Insightful)
How is it a slight difference? Next you'll be saying the US is only slightly different than Iraq was under Saddam, because we have death by lethal injection and they dropped chemical weapons on Kurds.
Re:Nonsense! (Score:2, Insightful)
Er, actually this is happening. Except that say that its because the journalist's source is a terrorist and the journalist must reveal the source. Some have been held without trial indefinitely.
There have been 130,000 deaths in Iraq since the US invaded. The US has dropped cluster bombs on homes. The US dropped Agent Orange on Vietnam, the effects of which are still felt today. The US is the only nation to have used a nuclear weapon on a civilian population. We justified the attacks on civilian populations simply because they were "the enemy" and "they wont surrender". The US used small pox against its own indigenous population.
Might want to open your eyes before riding that high horse. I happen to think that the US is the greatest nation in the world, and the US constitution the greatest human work in the world, but lets be honest, anything involving humans and power is going to get fucked up.
Re:China has piracy concerns... (Score:2, Insightful)
You haven't looked at the US balance of payment figures lately have you? Nor what China does with all those dollars it gets?
If it turned its dollars into yuan, the yuan would get too expensive, so instead they look for dollar-based things to buy. Last I checked they were flooding the US credit market, by supporting all this government spending.
If we suddenly embargoed china, we'd be fucked. Though, honestly, we're just postponing the inevitable.
Re:OH NOZ! (Score:5, Insightful)
Large governments do tend to engage in nationalistic hypocracy, however, so I guess this shouldn't be terribly surprising.