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Suppose 50% of your country becomes a murderer and is alive – they must have killed the other half, hence there is no one else left to be a murderer.

You might suggest that 99 % X people form a circle and administer poison to the person left to them, which would indeed reach the 99% ratio, but then many of these people would not achieve murderer status before they die.

Also, of the remaining 1% alive, none of them are murderers, so actually the society becomes 0% murderer society.

One other scenario, of course, is that murderer 1 kills an innocent, and achieves murderer status while alive. Then murderer 2 kills murderer 1, etc. This way we’d have at least one murderer alive at all times, and many people will be classified as murderers before they die. This is still imperfect of course.

Another problem with that approach is that if your country has a few million people, and let’s say, every person being murdered takes 10 seconds to die, this would indeed take a long time. For every 1 million people in a country, it’d take a bit less than 116 days.

Co-murderer status is the only practical solution. People gather in groups of hundred, and 99 people kill the same person, and this shouldn’t take too long in an organized country.

Hence we achieve 99% murderers in original population X, and 100% murderers in the remaining population. As these people make children, the new population will also decline to a 99% murderer population, as desired.

It is possible to make the new and old population 99% murderers in a shorter timescale, but the solution is involved and won’t fit the margins of this comment.

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Baidu actually host the MP3s on their own servers which is outrageous – they’re listed on the NASDAQ and I don’t understand why the record companies prosecute home file-sharers but let Baidu get away with industrial piracy. TechCrunch isn’t helping by describing them as “the leading search engine” – if you discount illegal MP3 searches, Google’s Mainland market share is now equal with Baidu.

I’m in mainland China, and I’ve been using the service for a year – it’s excellent. Buying legal music is very difficult here (even major supermarket chains stock pirated stuff), and the fact that it’s free of charge is an amazing bonus.

@Alex Trup: If you want to experience the wonders of life in the People’s Republic, you should stop co-operating with the bandits! Alternatively, you could obey the laws of the authorities who grant your visa/citizenship and buy music legally…. the benefits you boast of come with responsibilities too.