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Remember the Chinese search engine set to launch an
IPO on Nasdaq that supported MP3 searching and linked directly to music tracks on personal FTP servers? Well, Baidu has
complied with a request from a Chinese music licensing agency called R2G, and removed several thousand links. More
removals are pending. Baidu has stated that 22 percent of its searches seek MP3 files. That’s a whopping price in
traffic to pay for the company’s new notoriety. (The test searches I ran the other day when originally posting on this
item remain effective; as of this post those searches turn up downloadable MP3 files.)
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