Programmer gets 1.5 years in prison for copying "Journey to Chaos" and selling it online

by lengpengcheng on 2007-12-09 10:46:12

A programmer secretly copied the program code of the online game "Journey" when he resigned, and then sold it online for 130,000 yuan. The buyer resold it for 200,000 yuan to make a profit. Recently, Xuhui District People's Court made the first-instance judgment on this case. The defendant Wang Yuchuan was sentenced to one year and six months in prison and fined 50,000 yuan for infringing copyright. The defendants Wang Yan and Tang Shuai were found guilty of selling infringing copies and were sentenced to one year and ten months in prison respectively, with fines of 40,000 yuan and 30,000 yuan respectively.