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Calling All Hong Kong Digerati (and music lovers)! For our next social mixer on Wednesday 3rd June, we've invited Gary Chen, CEO & Founder of Top100.cn, a leading music website which recently became Google's exclusive music partner in China (Google中国音乐服务独家运营商). [A big "thank you" to the folks at MusicMatters for helping us organise this great speaker!] The topic is "Top100.cn: Making Music Legal with Google in China". I'll be asking Gary how to run a successful MP3 download service for licensed music in a country dominated by online piracy, and how he sees the partnership with Google eating into Baidu's dominance of the Chinese search market. Since starting in August 2008, the joint service now offers over 1 million licensed songs owned by four major record companies, 140 independent record companies and four overseas music publishers. "We were missing one piece ... we didn't have music," Lee Kai-Fu, the president of Google in Greater China. The night kicks off at 6:30pm and ends around 9:30pm, so you'll have plenty of opportunity to mix with the movers and shakers of our local Internet and music industry. There will be an entrance fee of HK$100, unless you're a bona-fide student, in which case it's HK$50. This includes one complimentary drink. All other drinks are at Happy Hour prices. (We will issue a receipt, if you require one). As per our last event, we will donate 10% to charity. Do invite fellow music lovers and MP3 pirates (or IP lawyers!) to join the Asian Digerati on Wednesday 3rd June at Volar, Basement, 38-44 D'Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Central. Looking forward to seeing old faces and meeting many more new ones, Napoleon Biggs Founder & Host - Web Wednesday