China’s Ministry of Culture will punish Baidu for providing illegal music downloads, state-run Xinhua news agency reports. A total of 14 websites will be punished for providing pirated music downloads. The Chinese search giant’s MP3 search service has long been criticized for providing links to pirated downloads. BaidU said in a statement that the company would remove the links that have been identified by the ministry. Christina Aguilera, Eminem and Bruno Mars were among the artists whose songs were included in the list.”]

