3pm Journal of Digital research & publishing - artichoke web design

3pm Journal of Digital research & publishing
the paste bar has made an outstanding contribution to the prosperity of free download in
China.
On June 23, 2005 Baidu launched "Baidu knows". It is a kind of online question and
answer service. With “Baidu knows” you can get the sources which have already online
and which are not.
On November 2002, Baidu issued the search of Mp3 after that on July 3, 2007, Rock
Records and Baidu announced that they have found a two side’s comprehensive strategic
cooperation to expand the digital music market in China and provide online music service
to the144 million Chinese Internet users. This cooperation made sure that most of the
audio sources you free download through Baidu Mp3 search are legal download. It is a
distinct banner in the chaos of the free download market in China.
Baidu categorised its sources into 57 different categories which cannot be introduced
one by one. However, this kind of specific category make sure Baidu can provide a
comprehensive database with an easy and accurate search service for free download.
1.2 The popularity of broadband
According to the 16th investigation& statistics report of China internet development
condition (CINIC) (CINIC, 2005), due to June 3oth 2005, the number of the broadband
internet users exceeded the dial-up internet user at the first time. In the following 17th
report of CINIC (CINIC, 2006), the number of broadband internet user increased to 64.3
million and accounted for 57.9% of the total internet users. Furthermore, in the 18th, 19th
and 20th report of CINIC (CINIC, 2006 & 2007), the number of broadband internet user
accounted for 62.6%, 66.2% and 75.3%. Therefore, the broadband became the mainstream
to access the internet among the cyber citizens.
Compared with the dial-up access the advantage of the broadband is its speed. Nowadays,
the common speed of the family used broadband in China is 1Mbps. It is much faster than
that of the dial-up access internet which is just 56kbps.
Before the popularity of the broadband though there are well-designed search engine
and lots of free sources online, the free download in China is not flourished. The speed
is a vital problem. Few people would like to take hours and hours to download a source.
Therefore, the popularity of the broadband increased the download speed and laid a solid
foundation for the prosperity of free download in China.
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