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Monday, 09 November 2009
 The main newspaper of the Communist Party of China - "Popular Journal" - accused Google of cutting off Internet users from access to its web site. The problem was to occur when there is a dispute on copyright.


"People's Journal" reported the complaints of Chinese who believe that the proposed access to Google's digital books may violate applicable in the Land of Middle provisions of copyright. Doubts are presented in a special report. For three days, the Google search engine showed that the report may contain malicious software. Newspaper writes that the Chinese search engine Baidu did not display similar information. - We thought that this may be related to the conflict between Google and the authors of the Chinese Library - books section manager, said Mr. Jian. He says that the newspaper was the first medium that was reported on. About all told readers. An unidentified representative of the "People's Daily" quoted on the official website of the newspaper said that the section was "maliciously blocked by Google." The American firm reacted by saying that the allegations were "completely wrong". Google spokeswoman, Cui Jin said Canadian branch of the Associated Press that the warning was generated by software that "works automatically without any human intervention. In the debate about copyright, China Association for written work returned to last week for Google to negotiate wages for Chinese authors. Recall that Google has reached a preliminary agreement to compensate American authors and publishers. Company representatives said that they argue SUCH rights holders in all countries to adopt the agreement. In June, the Chinese government has accused Google of allowing access to pornography. This coincided in time with an unexplained accident, which caused a temporary cut-off users in China from the search engine and Gmail. Google has 30 percent of this market in China. Beaten by a local rival Baidu, which has more than 60 per cent. In China, Internet use more than 338 million users. That's more than the entire U.S. population.

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