Monthly income of rogue software agents reaches 10,000 yuan, netizens want to sue but face difficulties in obtaining evidence

Pop-up ads often cause computers to crash, and ordinary netizens who want to pursue legal action encounter difficulties in obtaining evidence.

By Bian Fei and Du Xueyan

"Within a month at most, I earned 10,000 yuan just sitting at home. But ever since the crackdown on rogue software began, business has become increasingly difficult," said Liu Hong (a pseudonym), who claims to be a graduate student in the Chinese department of a university in Nanjing. He spoke with the reporter for two hours yesterday afternoon. In the conversation,

The mysterious veil was lifted on a large gray-area industrial chain related to "rogue software" ——

We can see from it: Rogue software has already formed an orderly industrial division of labor, including software development, channel promotion, and advertising operations.

"Rogue schools" charge between 300 to 1000 yuan.

"Rogue agents" earn 10,000 yuan per month.

"Rogue buyers" make several thousand yuan per month.

"The truly upstream ones are plug-in source program companies; they are responsible for providing shareware to webmasters of small and medium-sized websites and software programmers," Liu Hong initially did not refer to the products he once acted as an agent for as "rogue software," but rather called them "plug-ins."