Joint efforts by relevant Chinese departments have cracked 172
web piracy cases and closed down 76 websites in a three-month
crackdown over on-line piracy across the country, according to the
National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC).
Meanwhile, 137 websites were ordered to cancel illegal contents
from their webs and owners of 29 websites were punished with a
total fine of 789,000 yuan (about US$98,625).
The move was launched jointly by the Ministry of Public
Security, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and
the Ministry of Information Industry as well as other relevant
departments since September 2005.
Great headway has been made in the municipalities and provinces
of Beijing, Hainan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shanghai, Shandong and
Guangdong in the crackdown on web piracy.
Eight of the cases suspected of criminal offence have been
handed over to the judicial departments for criminal investigation,
the NCAC said.
(Xinhua News Agency February 6, 2006)
