Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen MissBook for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com news on December 6, according to the official account of Sucheng District Procuratorate in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, recently, Sucheng District people's Procuratorate handled a case of setting up a game "private server" and infringing other people's copyright.

At the end of 2018, Duan and other six people jointly developed the "A Chinese Odyssey" online game "Private Service", which was named "Journey to the West" and was put into operation in February 2019. According to the audit, as of June 2020, the amount of illegal operation of the game was more than 1500 million yuan, and the highest profit among the defendants was more than 6.4 million yuan.

▲ 's "Journey to the West". After the Sucheng District Procuratorate of Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, was brought to justice, the above defendants pleaded guilty and pleaded guilty through the interpretation of the case, and withdrew more than 1000 million yuan from the illegal proceeds.

A few days ago, after the Sucheng District people's Procuratorate initiated a public prosecution in accordance with the law, the Sucheng District people's Court issued a first-instance judgment on Chen and Duan and other 20 people for copyright infringement, and sentenced them to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from four years and four months to seven months, and a fine ranging from 650000 to 70,000 yuan.

CTOnews.com learned that private service generally refers to the act of privately setting up an online game server and making profits without the authorization or license of the copyright owner of the online game software, after obtaining the server-side program or source program of the online game through illegal means, which is essentially an act of online piracy.

Game private service as an illegal act, it lacks the necessary supervision, and the personal information security and property security of players can not be guaranteed accordingly.

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