p2pnet.net News:- China’s war against X-sites has so far meant some 445 people being arrested and 1,125 Web sites being shut down.

The results are due in large part to the fact China’s police ministry has put a bounty of up to $240 on the heads of the owners of pornographic sites, continues an Associated Press report.

Under recent new legislation, if a Chinese porn site is "clicked" more than 250,000 times, its owners could be jailed for life.

The sentence could affect anyone, "engaged in the profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and ‘phone-sex’ services".

"China encourages Internet use for education and business but bans sexually oriented content on its own Web sites and tries to block access to foreign sites deemed pornographic or subversive," says AP

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See:-

X-sites – China Offers Rewards for Reporting Porn, Associated Press, October 10, 2004

jailed for life – China ramps up Net-porn war, p2pnet, September 6, 2004

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