Set up the game and made a profit of more than 4 million yuan in three years, and two people were sentenced.

CTOnews.com, December 2 (Xinhua) recently, Shanghai Xuhui District people's Court sentenced defendant ran to three years and seven months' imprisonment and fined 1 million yuan for copyright infringement, according to the Shanghai Xuhui District people's Court, and sentenced defendant Deng to four years and two months' imprisonment and a fine of 1 million yuan, according to the Shanghai Municipal Office of Combating pornography and illegal activities. The two defendants were ordered to refund their illegal gains to the injured units.

According to investigation, during the period from March 2019 to February 2022, the defendants ran and Deng spread the online game "siege XX" to the public through the Internet, making a total profit of more than 4 million yuan.

The Xuhui District people's Court held that the defendants ran and Deng jointly spread other people's online game software to the public through the information network for the purpose of making profits without the permission of the copyright owner, and the circumstances were particularly serious, and their acts constituted a crime of copyright infringement, so the above judgment was made in accordance with the law.

CTOnews.com learned that private service generally refers to the act of privately setting up an online game server and making profits without the authorization or license of the copyright owner of the online game software, after obtaining the server-side program or source program of the online game through illegal means, which is essentially an act of online piracy.

Game private service as an illegal act, it lacks the necessary supervision, and the personal information security and property security of players can not be guaranteed accordingly.