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Recently China’s largest search engine Baidu has come under fire from music industry accusing it of supporting pirated music. Music industry representatives have warned advertisers to stop supporting Baidu because they believe it is......

The IFPI has announced that it demands $2.5 million from the Pirate Bay in the upcoming court case, to cover the damages they suffered from 24 music albums that were made available on the popular BitTorrent tracker.

Following pressure from the IFPI, a court has ruled that ISPs should be forced to block access to a file-sharing link site.

The IFPI is battling The Pirate Bay, but the latest move seems to have backfired. Attempts to get TPB blocked in countries like Denmark has only driven more traffic and attention to the site. Meanwhile, TPB maintains that its activities are legal.

While the Kazza case was previously the biggest win that the Anti-Piracy Movement has had, the unprecedented shutdown of Oink, Demonoid, and sites like TV-Links have made 2007 the most busy and important year in Anti-piracy operations since Napster

The Pirate Bay is encouraging its users to vote for Familjen, an independent artists who is nominated for a Swedish Grammy. They are using the power of peers to break with the tradition of music cartels that reward their own artists, and to annoy the IFPI