China looking to monitor MP3 music content

Woah, we're not sure how it even plans to do this, but China's Ministry of Culture is apparently setting new rules to vet music sold online. Music sites, including Google and Baidu's mp3 divisions, will now be forced to seek approval from censors for all foreign songs they distribute. Besides having to provide written lyrics for each song, translated into Chinese, they'll also need to show documents proving they aren't infringing on copyrights. Google's free mp3 download service at least has the blessings of record companies so perhaps it won't be too hard for it to sail these waters, but we wonder if this will become the storm that sinks Baidu. Source: Wall Street Journal