It seems the media Cartel have taken yet another legal beating in trying to force their monopoly onto others.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6163352.stmChina's leading web search engine has been cleared of copyright infringement by a Beijing court.
Baidu.com faced a lawsuit from music companies after posting links to sites offering illegal music downloads.
But the ruling said the service did not constitute an infringement as the music was downloaded from webservers of third parties, state press reported.
This overturns an earlier ruling, which had ordered Baidu to pay a distributor of EMI 68,000 yuan (£8,400).
Companies including EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal Music had had demanded a public apology from Baidu, the suspension of its download service and 1.73m yuan ($216,250) compensation.
Baidu argued the MP3 search engine it provided was the same as other search engines providing links to web pages, news and pictures.
"If the music companies had won, the whole search engine sector would have ground to a halt," Xinhua news agency quoted a Baidu spokesman as saying.
The report said the music companies would appeal against the ruling.
I can hear Google breathing a sigh of relief at this one as they own a stake in the Chinese company who won this case.
If this case had gone against Baiduit it would also have opened the gates to other companies to censor the web to their tastes by threats of law suit, this latest judgement is self explanatory and reasonable.
