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We've been following the record labels fight with Chinese search engine giant Baidu since it began in 2005.

The labels kept claiming that Baidu was infringing on their copyrights by helping people find music.

In its “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets”, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has listed more than 30 Internet and offline physical ‘markets’ which it says exemplify “key challenges” in the fight against piracy and counterfeiting.

Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists appeared to have been hacked and Google's Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked because of an internal change Tuesday, the latest troubles in China's heavily censored Internet market.

It comes a week after Google announced it was moving its controversial Chinese search engine offshore. Google was ultimately blocked by Chinese authorities!

China is no stranger to Internet censorship.

The country’s Great Firewall includes many well known sites, but up until now BitTorrent sites have never been blocked.

Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing's censorship rules.