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Among the online shopping sites that are notorious for US copyright infringement are many Chinese names, including Baidu, which provides a search engine that lets you search their index of websites, images, and multimedia content, including mp3 and movie files. 91.com is another website that allows for the piracy of many Smartphone apps, and is responsible for over half of all the downloaded applications in China.

Taobao is another online retail and auction site that is similar to eBay, and is purported to facilitate the sale of copyright infringing goods. TV Ants is a service that is reportedly based in China and allows users to stream TV channels from all over the world. BitTorrent indexers and trackers like Sweden's ThePirateBay have been the target of recent takedown notices and other legal threats, but the site defends its actions as legal under Swedish law.

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In a startling development Nokia has suddenly put the shutters on all online stores offering its merchandise and repairs. This does nothing to ease the investors who have seen their stocks going down over the last few months.
The online stores based in France, Spain, and The Netherlands were all shut last month. The only online stores which were functional were in USA and UK and those have also closed down now.
The company's website states that the merchandise will be available on online stores of Amazon. This could be a good move considering that the costs related to maintaining a store are more. There was alarm in the customers about how they could purchase the new smart phones.
The officials are not giving any reason as to why the stores were closed but it is widely speculated that there was not much good coming out of it. There are numerous complains about the E7 and N8 and these online stores were just able to address these complaints and no new sales were being made. There were very few footfalls and most of them were for technical assistance rather than actual buying.

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In India, only a few netizens of Mumbai and other metropolitan cities indulge in online shopping, but as the banking facilities and internet connectivity increase, the online shopping figures are set to rise by 30% every year. The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India survey, which was based on the responses of 5000 participants from Banglore, Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi, predicted that online shopping will more than triple by 2015 with Indians spending over $1.6 billion on online shopping.
It is estimated that there are 100 million people in India who use the internet at least once a week. With increased internet penetration and greater spending power, India, after China and America, is next in line experience a boom in online shopping.