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A TOTAL of 25 cases of film copyright infringement and piracy have been solved in a crackdown on bootlegging of films screened in cinemas during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday in February, China鈥檚 Ministry of Public Security announced yesterday.
The police arrested 251 suspects, closed 361 websites and 57 apps and seized seven servers for producing high-definition pirated movies and 14,000 pieces of equipment, the MPS said at a press conference held in Yangzhou, in east China鈥檚 Jiangsu Province.
Police from Jiangsu busted sources for producing pirated movies and sales networks, and seized 13,673 pieces of equipment including a server that had been sought by police for three years.
Police said that since 2017, four suspects have copied movies, added watermarks to them, encrypted them and uploaded them onto cloud drives.
The suspects provided tens of thousands of pirated movies to film-bars that had paid the suspects for membership, making profits from illegal screenings.
Police from east China鈥檚 Zhejiang Province destroyed the app that spread the highest number of pirated films. Police from Henan, Beijing, Shanghai and Jiangxi also busted criminal gangs, websites and apps.
According to incomplete statistics, the bootlegging of the eight films screened during the Spring Festival holiday, including sci-fi blockbuster 鈥淭he Wandering Earth,鈥 incurred losses of around 787 million yuan to cinemas and legal video platforms.
Directors and actors Wu Jing, Huang Bo and Shen Teng, as well as director and writer Han Han attended the press conference. They said the crackdown on piracy protects the rights and interests of filmmakers and benefits the sound development of the industry.
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