Website 'monitors' on trial over pornography
By Alice Zhang |
October 11, 2010, Monday
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A TOTAL of 36 people, including college students, a library curator and a company president, stood trial in east China's Jiangsu Province on Saturday on charges of operating a pornographic website with more than 3 million registered users.
The suspects, aged between 20 and 45 from 10 provinces, could face up to eight years in jail on charges of spreading and copying pornographic information including more than 50,000 pictures, 1,500 novels and 1,300 movies through the website, said the court in Pei County, China News Service reported yesterday.
All the suspects denied charges of gaining profit from running the website, saying they just did it for fun.
However, prosecutors said the suspects acted as the "management board" of the website in charge of monitoring and uploading material, and received monthly pay of 1,500 yuan (US$225) and other bonuses through attracting advertising and paying visitors.
The website had a company-style management system, prosecutors said, with a total of 231 monitors categorized into four levels having different rights and authority decided by their performance.
It also had human resources and IT departments to support its work.
Police are still hunting for the other monitors.
Li Modong, the man said to be in charge of the website, said he had been invited by a friend to be a monitor.
He usually spent three hours a day editing and copying photos to raise page-viewing numbers.
He was promoted later and took over duties that involved regular performance reviews and sending money via an overseas bank to each monitor.
Li had now lost his job at a local chemical company.
The court didn't announce a verdict on Saturday.
The suspects, aged between 20 and 45 from 10 provinces, could face up to eight years in jail on charges of spreading and copying pornographic information including more than 50,000 pictures, 1,500 novels and 1,300 movies through the website, said the court in Pei County, China News Service reported yesterday.
All the suspects denied charges of gaining profit from running the website, saying they just did it for fun.
However, prosecutors said the suspects acted as the "management board" of the website in charge of monitoring and uploading material, and received monthly pay of 1,500 yuan (US$225) and other bonuses through attracting advertising and paying visitors.
The website had a company-style management system, prosecutors said, with a total of 231 monitors categorized into four levels having different rights and authority decided by their performance.
It also had human resources and IT departments to support its work.
Police are still hunting for the other monitors.
Li Modong, the man said to be in charge of the website, said he had been invited by a friend to be a monitor.
He usually spent three hours a day editing and copying photos to raise page-viewing numbers.
He was promoted later and took over duties that involved regular performance reviews and sending money via an overseas bank to each monitor.
Li had now lost his job at a local chemical company.
The court didn't announce a verdict on Saturday.
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