Baidu is shutting down some of its online forums to crack down on piracy
Baidu has announced that it will start shutting down some of the bars, or forums, within its Baidu Tieba platform if they are found to have pirated content.
The forums in questions are specifically for online literature and come as the Government is reportedly clamping down on piracy of online literature. Some reports claim that thousands of forum threads are being closed.
The news was first covered by state-owned news agency Xinhua, which also ran a report earlier this year stating that Baidu was one of the worst offenders for literature piracy.
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Source: The Drum
