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Yahoo! China loses case over illegal music downloads
0 Comments | AFP, April, 2007
BEIJING (AFP) — Yahoo! China lost a lawsuit filed by music industry giants including Warner Music for allegedly playing and providing links to unlicensed music, state media reported Wednesday.
A Beijing court ordered Yahoo! China to pay about 200,000 yuan (26,000 dollars) in damages for assisting downloads of unlicensed music in other websites and delete 229 links to free songs, the China Business News said.
Yahoo! China plans to file an appeal, according to a statement by the company, a unit of Chinese online auction sites operator Alibaba, in which Yahoo! has a 40-percent stake.
The court said Yahoo! China helped users to listen to and download unlicensed music with its search engine but added that it is the third-party Web sites, not Yahoo China, that...
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