Yahoo China To Be Sued For Linking To Sites Selling Pirated Music

Spotted via TechCrunch, Bloomberg reports that Yahoo China is to be sued for linking to sites that sell pirated music. The article claims “about 90 percent of all recordings in China are illegal, with sales of pirated music worth about $400 million annually,” according to the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry. A new law in China that came into effect on July 1 “fines distributors of illegally copied music, movies and other material over the Internet as much as 100,000 yuan ($12,500).”