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By Dong Hui |
July 16, 2009, Thursday
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SHANGHAI prosecutors will soon charge seven suspects from eastern China's Anhui Province for making and posting more than 500,000 erotic images, videos and documents on WAP Websites for access by mobile phones, city police said today.
The cross-province prosecution was the biggest pornography bust in the city's history, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau said.
"We are astonished to find so many cell phone users, especially the young, surf on such mobile pornographic sites," said Fu Bin, an investigator in the case. "Only a few normal Websites can enjoy the same number of their rocketing hits."
It's also the only Shanghai case in which a registered company spread pornography. The main suspect, 28-year-old Sheng Xisong, had been considered a start-up business talent who started with a major computer company.
Police said they began investigation in early May after finding several large pornographic WAP sites with IP addresses in Anhui Province.
Initial investigation showed at least 200,000 erotic images, 300,000 pornographic novels and 1,000 videos were stored on the Websites' databases, which attracted tens of thousands of hits a day.
2 million users
All erotic material was made by Shanghai Caiwap Information Technology Co, which is registered in Shanghai, police said.
Sheng was the general manager and CEO of the company, while the other six Anhui natives, including two junior students, reproduced the pornographic material for mobile phones and maintained five WAP sites in Anhui's Hefei and Ma'anshan cities and Shanghai.
"The data transmission speed for a cell phone is much slower than for a computer, so these employees reduced the file sizes of the original material for mobiles," Fu, the investigator, said.
The WAP sites didn't charge users but made a profit of at least 600,000 yuan (US$87,816) from directing traffic to Internet advertisers, Sheng confessed. The profit could be much more, police said.
More than 2 million mobile users visited these WAP sites a month on average, said Qu Weifang from Shanghai police's information security department.
"It's unexpected for us that the company has such a big market," the investigator Fu said. "We'll definitely intensify investigations into such crimes, especially when there are increasingly more 3G users."
On May 22, officers seized Sheng and the other six employees in Hefei City.
The suspects face at least three years for making money from spreading pornographic material, said Fu.
The cross-province prosecution was the biggest pornography bust in the city's history, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau said.
"We are astonished to find so many cell phone users, especially the young, surf on such mobile pornographic sites," said Fu Bin, an investigator in the case. "Only a few normal Websites can enjoy the same number of their rocketing hits."
It's also the only Shanghai case in which a registered company spread pornography. The main suspect, 28-year-old Sheng Xisong, had been considered a start-up business talent who started with a major computer company.
Police said they began investigation in early May after finding several large pornographic WAP sites with IP addresses in Anhui Province.
Initial investigation showed at least 200,000 erotic images, 300,000 pornographic novels and 1,000 videos were stored on the Websites' databases, which attracted tens of thousands of hits a day.
2 million users
All erotic material was made by Shanghai Caiwap Information Technology Co, which is registered in Shanghai, police said.
Sheng was the general manager and CEO of the company, while the other six Anhui natives, including two junior students, reproduced the pornographic material for mobile phones and maintained five WAP sites in Anhui's Hefei and Ma'anshan cities and Shanghai.
"The data transmission speed for a cell phone is much slower than for a computer, so these employees reduced the file sizes of the original material for mobiles," Fu, the investigator, said.
The WAP sites didn't charge users but made a profit of at least 600,000 yuan (US$87,816) from directing traffic to Internet advertisers, Sheng confessed. The profit could be much more, police said.
More than 2 million mobile users visited these WAP sites a month on average, said Qu Weifang from Shanghai police's information security department.
"It's unexpected for us that the company has such a big market," the investigator Fu said. "We'll definitely intensify investigations into such crimes, especially when there are increasingly more 3G users."
On May 22, officers seized Sheng and the other six employees in Hefei City.
The suspects face at least three years for making money from spreading pornographic material, said Fu.
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