On 11 june, the court sentenced him to three years' imprisonment for violating copyright and punished him with a fine of $500,000。
“it is hoped that the public will further raise awareness of protection, respect intellectual property rights and respect for the wisdom of creators, and that more of the best films will `show out'.” the procurador for the beijing light film industry ltd., the author of the film " what's the devil? "。
An illegal website with a "gun" film
In 2025, the spring-time film market burst, and when viewers paid for tickets to watch in cinemas, there was an illegal website lined up for free “gun” films。
Former director of a network company who resigned and worked as a network advertising agent. Since march 2023, he has been building 18 illegal video sites through the purchase of domain names, the rental of servers and the purchase of web templates。
In the absence of authorization from author rights holders, the use of a video resource acquisition system to automatically collect network-related resources, or by means of manually adding video links, can be shown at any time on-line free-of-charge spot by visitors at the 2025 spring festival, such as the “gun” version of the illegal video website, “what is the devil's landing” and “tang zhou: part ii of the curse of the fire: a bear flowing the future”。
On 22 january of this year, a filmmaker who discovered violations reported them to the public security organs of dongyang city. On 4 february, he was captured。
At the request of the public security organs and at the request of the public security authorities, the dungyang municipal public prosecutor's office has intervened in accordance with the law to obtain evidence from the public security organs in the areas of verification of the time of construction of illegal websites, the number of films and films that have been used in violation of the law, the amount of advertising fees received in violation of the law, and the evaluation of the works in question。
Tracking website templates sellers and film robbers
In the course of the proceedings, the public prosecutor's office of dongyang city found that a person who had been involved in the operation of an illegal video site had worked as an advertising agent on the internet and had been paid through a virtual currency account, and concluded that the sum of the collections of the virtual currency account could not be simply mechanically recognized as the proceeds of the offence。
To this end, the unit, through repeated interrogations of fixed confessions, verification of objective evidence such as the recording of conversations between a person and an advertising agent on the internet, and careful combing of the flow of trade, has finally identified the amount of advertising fees charged by a person for operating an illegal video site involved in the case. On 28 march, a person was transferred to the dongyang city prosecutor's office to review the charges。
The cumulative number of hits on 18 illegal video sites was over 23. 5 million. Anyone who collaborates with illegal advertisers through offshore chat software places yellow, gambling advertisements on websites and settles them in virtual currency on the basis of the number of hits, for a total of over $470,000。
The dungyang city public prosecutor's office held that any person who, for profit, disseminates the audiovisual works of another person to the public through an information network without the permission of a copyrighted person should be held criminally liable for violating the copyright. On 10 april, the dungyang city public prosecutor's office opened a case in court for alleged infringement of copyright。
The prosecutor also noted that, if a confession stated that it had purchased a video website template on a website, would the seller of the template be aware of any violation? Does it belong to an accomplice
By checking the flow of any payment transactions, the suspect, xu, surfaced. Suh, knowing that the template he sold was used to create an illegal video resource website and to violate the copyright of video works for profit, continues to make the template available to a large number of people on a paid basis. The dongyang city public prosecutor's office found that suh's actions were also suspected of violating copyright and opened a case on 10 march. At present, suh yao is at large and is under arrest。
