In an e-mail reply to China Daily on Wednesday, Baidu said it always attaches great importance to the copyright protection of online video content.

Baidu said it developed a screening system to filter pirated videos and opened a 24-hour channel to receive pirated video reports or complaints.

However, Yao Jian, CEO of Youku Tudou, said his company has made reports to Baidu, but nothing changed and the pirated content is still rampant online.

Feng Wei, China president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said a large number of Chinese and foreign films and television productions are distributed on rogue video sites that are easily built using light content management systems.

"We must increase efforts to stop companies from infringing copyrighted material and to pay for the damages for the loss of copyright," Feng said.

To be able to provide high quality content to the end user, major legitimate video sites have made huge investments. Charles Zhang said the price of TV dramas jumped to 1 million yuan per episode, from zero a few years ago.

"We pay a large sum (to be legal), but we find half of the traffic flow is to pirated websites. We failed to sell our ads, so our income could not cover expenses for content and Internet bandwidth," Zhang said.

Questions:

1. Who is suing Baidu for copyright violations?

2. What are they asking?

3. What is Baidu’s response?

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