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Chinese authors' society MCSC and digital distributor R2G file a lawsuit against Baidu, a leading Chinese search engine that allegedly providing unlicensed music streaming and downloading via its website to promote traffic and increase their advertising revenues. This lawsuit marks a change of approach since negotiations did not work in 2007 when R2G could not renew their agreement with Baidu to have them block the illegal download of ringtones based on copyright works.