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Executives jailed for spreading video porn
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FOUR executives of online video service Qvod were jailed yesterday for spreading pornography for profit, a Beijing court announced.
Wang Xin, former CEO of Shenzhen-based Qvod Technology Co Ltd, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison and fined 1 million yuan (US$149,254), Haidian District People’s Court said.
The other three executives were handed prison terms of up to three-years-and-three-months and must pay fines of up to 500,000 yuan, according to the court.
The company was fined 10 million yuan.
Qvod was found to have hosted and streamed a large amount of pornography and pirated content and had generated a substantial income by charging users and advertisers.
According to Haidian District People’s Procuratorate, 21,251 of 29,841 files that police obtained in 2013 from four servers used by Qvod were pornographic.
The court heard Qvod had been punished twice before for spreading pornography.
After it was first punished by Internet security authorities, it set up an information security group tasked with monitoring content across the site. However, it was ineffective, the court said.
In August 2013, Qvod was punished by broadcast and media authorities in Shenzhen.
“Wang Xin was not only aware of the pornography, but took measures to prevent the files from being found,” the judge said.
The court believed that despite being punished, Qvod continued to turn a blind eye to the graphic content, as it was generating such huge profits.
“Qvod is duty bound to ensure Internet security,” the judge said. “It should have the ability to do so, and pay the necessary cost.”
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