Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/09/china_arrests/
China jails porn-monger
Crackdown continues
Posted in Bootnotes, 9th February 2010 09:17 GMT
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China's aggressive crackdown on internet smut and dissent continues - yesterday a man was sentenced to 13 years prison for renting a US server for distributing pornographic material
Huang Yizhong, from Jiangmen, was fined 100,000 yuan (£9,400) and sentenced to 13 years for copying and distributing pornographic material.
He used a rented US server to download 1,000 films which he edited into clips and made available to the 4,000 members of his website.
Chinese media said he earned almost 500,000 yuan (£46,900). He ran the site from 2005 until he was caught last July.
More from China Daily here. [1]
Chinese authorities have arrested thousands of people since the crackdown was announced, [2] and have even recruited volunteer smut-seekers [3] to report dodgy content.
Hundreds of website have been forcibly closed and the government is restricting how individuals can register domain names.
Although widely interpreted as a way to restrict political dissent Chinese authorities have used the crackdown to restrict access to most forms of online content.®