China shuts down websites in latest crackdown on Internet porn, piracy
23/3/2006 15:16
China has closed a number of domestic porn and illegal websites in the
latest crackdown on Internet porn and piracy, authorities said.
According to
the national office of anti-porn and anti-piracy under the General
Administration of Press and Publication, a number of piracy cases, in the
provinces of Guangdong, Anhui and Hubei have resulted in arrests.
Anhui
province in east China closed or deleted seven websites containing illegal
content and 53 websites were closed that contained pornographic or violent
online games.
Police in Hefei, capital of Anhui, uncovered a live sex
website.
In Hubei province, central China, three Internet piracy rings were
broken. Lu Xiaoliang and Chen Liang, have been accused of setting up a server to
run the online game World of Legend and earned up to a million yuan (US$125,000)
violating the rights of the game's official operator Shanda Interactive
Entertainment Limited.
In another case, Dong Yaping and his partners have
been accused of operating the game Legend 3, violating the copyright of the
games creator Guangzhou Optisp. The piracy ring made 260,000 yuan (US$32,500).
Dong has been arrested.
The third case involves illegal movie downloading.
Jiang Jinsong was fined 100,000 yuan and had five servers confiscated after his
company was accused of charging visitors to his site for downloading thousands
of movies without authorization from copyright owners.
In Shenzhen, south
China's Guangdong province, 431,630 pirated books were confiscated, and seven
people arrested. It's the first time that police have confiscated such a large
number of pirated books in Shenzhen.
Investigation showed that the piracy
ring had two warehouses of more than 2,400 square meters. Deng Xiaojun, head of
the ring, said that the pirated books were mainly from Beijing and Hunan and
were sold to provinces such as Zhejiang, Fujian, Hainan and Guangdong, forming a
distribution network.
The national office for anti-porn and anti-piracy said
that China is determined to protect copyright and will continue its efforts to
fight against porn and piracy.
Xinhua
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