Chinese students jailed
p2pnet.net News:- The Chinese student in eastern Zhejiang province sentenced to a year in jail for selling pornography online was lucky.
A 22 year-old student, identified only by his surname Xie, “was sentenced by a court in the provincial capital of Hangzhou on Tuesday for operating a pornographic Internet service,” according to the Xinhua news agency.
“The sentencing comes under a new government effort to crackdown on Internet porn and ‘purify’ China’s social environment, it said Wednesday.”
How was he lucky?
His sentence was only for a year.
Yan Jun and Cao Zhen, two computer science students in Chongqing, launched the Golden Cinema, secured vod8.cn and haokan.cn, as well as servers in Zhengzhou and Shanghai, and, “began to show pornographic films to registered members who paid via bank transfer or SMS,” says ChinaTechNews.
They were, however, caught in July.
Yan Jun received a seven year jail sentence, and Cao Zhen was jailed for four years.
And even they were lucky.
China recently announced that if a Chinese porn site is “clicked” more than 250,000 times, its owners could be jailed for life.
The sentence could be applied to anyone “engaged in the profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and ‘phone-sex’ services.
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See:-
lucky – Chinese computer science major sentenced for Internet porn, Agence France Press, September 29, 2004
Golden Cinema – Chongqing’s First Case Of Selling Pornographic Goods Online Settled, ChinaTechNews, September 29, 2004
clicked – China ramps up Net-porn war, p2pnet, September 6, 2004
September 30th, 2004 at 3:57 am
>The sentence could be applied to anyone “engaged in the >profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic materials >through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and ‘phone-sex’ >services.
Does that mean it would be ok if it’s not profit-oriented?
September 30th, 2004 at 4:17 am
Yeah Like sex ed videos!!!!! Those poor chinese need to learn how to have sex!!!!!