Yahoo! China sued for allegedly helping illegal music downloads

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2007

BEIJING (AFP) — Music industry giants including Warner Music are jointly sueing Yahoo! China for allegedly playing and providing links to unlicensed music, state press reported on Thursday.

Led by industry group International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI), eleven companies including Warner Music, EMI and Sony BMG Music Entertainment are sueing Yahoo! China, a unit of Alibaba, for about 5.5 million yuan (710,000 US dollars) in damages, the China Daily said.

Under a deal in 2005, Chinese online auction sites operator Alibaba took over Yahoo Inc's China business and Yahoo bought a 40 percent stake in Alibaba.

A spokesman from Alibaba told the newspaper that Yahoo! China only provides links in its music research results and should not be held...

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