dianping.com was sued for users reviews on restaurants

Dianping.com(大众点评网), founded in 2003, is a shanghai-based website to let its users to share their review on various restaurants in most of the major cities in China, the rank of the restaurants is determined by users reviews and ratings. Dianping also collected users review and published several books named �Restaurants Review� for various cities�, and issues VIP card, card holders can get discounts in many restaurants. It is a useful and popular web2.0 site to find favorite restaurants.

Recently, Dianping.com was sued by several restaurants due to the negative reviews on the restaurants by its users. Though it is not the first time for dianping.com to be sued for the similar reasons (dianping won the law suite), we still care about the result of judgment because of the increasing number of accusers. Since participation of users is a critical feature of web2.0 sites, sharing reviews on something is also one of the most popular business idea for web2.0 business, for example, the newly launched Riffs. If dianping.com has to be responsible for users reviews on restaurants, how will it influence the development of web2.0 in China, especial those rely on users reviews.

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