Justice Net (Weibo) Chongqing, January 5 - (reported by Shen Yi, correspondent Nanjianxuan) Liang, a post-80s youth from Nanan District in Chongqing, uploaded 94 obscene videos and 131 obscene pictures on the same website to improve his membership level and see more pornographic videos. On January 4, the Nanan District Procuratorate revealed that this young man was recently arrested for being suspected of disseminating obscene materials. According to the prosecutor in charge, Liang was born in 1982 and worked as a maintenance worker for a certain group. On December 12, 2010, while surfing the Internet at home, Liang saw a website. After clicking into it, he discovered that the site contained a large amount of pornographic images and videos. He wanted to indulge himself visually but learned that he had to register as a member of the website to view these contents. Moreover, if the membership level was low, there would be fewer contents available. The level of membership was determined based on the coins earned by members on the website; the more coins one earned, the higher the level. To earn coins, one had to upload obscene posts on the website. The more uploads, clicks, and replies, the more coins one could earn.
Liang confessed that on the day he registered as a member, he uploaded obscene information for the first time on the 27th of the same month. Most of the obscene information he uploaded came from the website itself. He first downloaded a "seed" (a type of computer file) from the website and used it to post obscene information. Each "seed" pointed to at least one video file, with some pointing to nearly ten video files. By the time of his last post on January 9, 2011, he had posted a large number of obscene video files and pictures. His obscene posts generally received replies ranging from a few to over a dozen, with click-through rates ranging from dozens to hundreds.
Liang completed all the uploading of obscene posts on his home computer. Evidence shows that from his last post until his arrest on December 5, 2011, nearly a year passed. The police extracted relevant video files and pictures from Liang's home computer hard drive for inspection. It was determined that 94 video files and 131 picture files were classified as obscene materials.
According to relevant regulations from the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security, if not for profit, making, copying, publishing, selling, or spreading more than 40 obscene movies, performances, animations, or other video files via the Internet constitutes suspicion of disseminating obscene materials and entails criminal responsibility; if for profit, only 20 instances would lead to criminal prosecution.