Yahoo China Offers Direct Link to Pirated Downloads

Does the Right Hand Know what the Left Hand is Infringing?

[martinibuster]

They say when in Rome do as the Romans do, but is this taking things too far? Reuters reports [today.reuters.co.uk]:

Yahoo China's music pages link directly to unlicensed downloads and streams of songs by domestic and international artists.

...the links on Baidu and Yahoo directly trigger a download of music hosted by sites that appear to be unaffiliated with Yahoo.

The most obvious examples of apparent copyright infringement on the Yahoo China site include deep links to music by the Beatles.

...Yahoo China management denies that such links are examples of copyright violations.