The widely watched Coral QQ case in the industry will be retried this afternoon at Nanshan District Court of Shenzhen. Previously, the case was tried twice on December 19 and December 24, 2007, at Nanshan District People's Court of Shenzhen. In the second trial held on December 24 last year, Chen Shoufu’s proxy lawyer for Coral QQ made a public defense. The lawyer pointed out that the development and distribution of Coral were carried out under Tencent’s implicit permission. No illegal incomes were obtained and no harm but advantages were brought to the society. Tencent previously "knew, permitted, even guided and benefited" from it. Thus, they applied to the court for releasing Chen Shoufu as innocent. However, the prosecution side thought that, with the purpose of making profits, Chen Shoufu modified and reproduced the copyright holder’s computer software without the copyright holder’s permission and thus gained a huge amount of illegal profits. Over four years, he gained a total profit of RMB 1.17 million, violating Article 217 of the Criminal Law and being suspected of infringing upon the copyright holder’s rights.