Chinese porn dealer sent to prison for profiting off of porn in China

[Deja Q]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-china-porn-conviction,1,5496274.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines


BEIJING -- The creator of China's largest pornographic Web site was jailed for life on Wednesday, state media reported.

Xinhua News Agency said judges at the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court in Shanxi province gave the life sentence to Chen Hui and handed down terms of 13 months to 10 years to eight others after they were convicted of profiting from pornographic dissemination.

Chen, 28, and his accomplices started the Qingseliuyuetian (Pornographic Summer) Web site in 2004, and opened a further three porn Web sites, attracting more than 600,000 users.

Xinhua reported that police said it was difficult to know the exact amount of profits the Web site earned. Police found about 200,000 yuan ($25,000) in the bank accounts of the nine.

When the site was closed in October last year, it contained more than 9 million pornographic images and articles, the police said.

So much for free enterprise... I had no idea a naked hoobiethingie was so threatening... :shrug:

[rug]

1. Pornographic dissemination?