I posted an article earlier in the semester where the US claimed that Baidu was promoting pirated information. Apparently, they were correct, and now Baidu is attempting to rectify the issue.
Baidu deleted 2.8 million online written works from it's Baidu Wenku--or online library--due to copyright infringement. Basically the Baidu Wenku is a peer to peer library system where the users can upload or download literary works. 40 plus authors claimed Baidu listed their works without permission.
This obviously takes in to account China's faulty intellectual property rights protection. Typically things like this would not be addressed, but it's possible that since Baidu is the largest search engine and is typically under scrutiny, that they addressed the issue. It's also interesting that this happened recently after America decides to not pass a similar Google literary library.
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