The Chinese will launch a licensed music service

Licensed - in the sense that on this service, which is developed by the Baidu Inc team, only licensed music will be available, offered to visitors completely legitimate. Now Baidu can find pirated music and videos better than other search services. In this case, the search engine provides direct links to download the same music files, which do not make other search services. True, I personally checked this fact for a long time, maybe a year ago, maybe the situation has changed.

So, the Chinese music service will be called Baidu Ting, and it will start working in May. Baidu Ting will provide users with the ability to download music, listen to it online, create online libraries. The developers also plan to add social networking functionality to the service.
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Today, musical piracy in China brings huge losses to rightholders (in any case, the rightholders themselves say so) in the amount of hundreds of millions of dollars. The notorious Baidu search for music files (including, the search works for domestic works, try).

It is worth recalling that Baidu in China is the number one search engine, with 70% of the search market. The share of Google in this country is constantly decreasing, since the corporation is in a state of permanent conflict with the Chinese government.

Last week, Baidu's management has already signed an agreement with the Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC), pledging to pay a coin for each downloaded music file. Earn the same service plans with advertising. In addition, Baidu is in talks with Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. With the EMI Group search engine agreed through the MCSC.

As for Google, the corporation launched a search service for licensed music in China in 2008, but last year the service had to be closed due to a gap with the government of this country.

Via yahoo