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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A assemble of Asiatic authors hit accused China's crowning see engine Baidu Inc of papers misconduct by allowing users to place their entireness online without their permission.

The letter, which was signed by more than 50 Asiatic authors and writers was circulated finished Sina's favourite Twitter-like assist Weibo and was reposted on websites.

The authors accused Baidu, which has the lion's share of the see mart after Google scaled downbound its Asiatic dealings last year, of allowing cyberspace users to place the authors' entireness on Baidu Library without their consent.

"We don't blessed our friends who are uploading these things, we blessed Baidu's vicious platform," the honor said. A copy of the honor was posted on Asiatic uranologist Shen Haobo's blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5951573c0100qiti.html

The authors also threatened to give up writing every unitedly unless the papers misconduct ceased.

"About a assemblage past when Baidu launched their Mp3 penalization service, everyone could meet download penalization for free. This had a rattling serious consequence. It led direct to the lessening of China's penalization industry," the honor said.

A Baidu spokesman said the consort takes papers misconduct complaints seriously and that papers holders and authors could register complaints online and the infringing touchable would be condemned downbound within 48 hours.

"To fellow we hit deleted tens of thousands of infringing items uploaded by Baidu Library users," said Kaiser Kuo, Baidu's spokesman in a statement.

Other than Asiatic books, a see by Reuters turned up some favourite arts titles such as the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer and the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling that can be found on the Baidu Libray.

The books are avaliable for download liberated of calculate in assorted e-book formats.

Last month, Baidu was spotlighted as a notorious mart for piracy by the United States Trade Representative office.

Over the past digit years, record companies hit condemned Baidu to suite for papers misconduct over its Mp3 see assist that allows users to easily see for and download penalization for free.

In Jan last year, a Beijing suite cleared Baidu of the papers suits and said the see engine did not break some laws.

(Reporting by Melanie Lee; Editing by Lincoln Feast)

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