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asia.cnet.com — A broad and acrimonious war of words and legal wrangling is going on between China's biggest search engine, Baidu, and a number of prominent Chinese authors.

At the heart of the battle is the fairly new WenKu (文库) digital books portal...

www.chinatechnews.com — Some neat news out of Kunming -- apparently a joint project of cooperation between Microsoft and Internet cafes in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, is hitting fruition. "At the base of the project, Microsoft will provide online office software training courses to these Internet cafes and to laid-off people in Kunming.

www.chengduliving.com — The dubious foundation of video game culture and society in China rests on – you guessed it – software piracy. Mega-developer Activision is not only not making millions from sales in China but there isn’t even a Chinese language localization because they’re too intimidated by ubiquitous 5 yuan burned copies. In China, the rules are very different.

www.chinahush.com — The largest BitTorrent website BTChina was shut down by the Chinese authority couple days ago and yesterday another popular media sharing site VeryCD.com was also offline. This created a buzz among the Chinese netizens. If you search for the term BTChina in twitter the most twitted phrase is BTChina+VeryCD连起来读就是变态中国很操蛋! (BTChina + VeryCD is Retarded China Very fucking stupid.

www.lostlaowai.com — We all have tough China days, but rare is the occasion that a trip to the DVD shop doesn't sooth what ails you. It's not uncommon to get DVDs of films out in theatres (albeit a crappy cam job), however with a recent leak in the movie production process most Chinese DVD shops are now stocking X-Men Origins - not due out until May 1st.