Pornography-related live survey: temptation and rewards are just appetizers, some are for gambling, or use Trojan horses to steal secrets
"Welcome to Brother XX, a sports car and WeChat." On July 20, following the clues provided by netizens, the reporter downloaded a live broadcast app, which is different from ordinary live broadcast rooms and requires recharge to speak.
Before recharging, users can only browse the live broadcast rooms of each anchor. The reporter noticed that most anchors set the names of the live broadcast rooms to be more explicit to attract clicks, such as "Young Woman Pan Jinlian". The use of pornographic performances to lure users into buying gifts has become a mainstream profit model. In a live broadcast room, as users used more gifts, the female anchor’s pornographic performances became more and more explicit.
While live broadcasting has become a handle for online goods delivery, it is also being targeted by gray producers.
Since June, the chaos on the pornographic live broadcast platform has repeatedly entered the public eye. The “Didi Driver Sexual Assault Live” incident that has aroused heated discussion was finally proved to be a self-directed and self-acted performance by couples on a pornographic live broadcast platform; on July 7, the National “Anti-Professional and Anti-illegal” Office reported 7 incidents of spreading obscenity on the web live platform. A typical case of vulgar and harmful information has opened the tip of the iceberg for pornographic live broadcast platforms.
From July 16 to 26, the Beijing News Shell Finance and Economics reporter found that many pornographic live broadcast platforms have not completely disappeared after the "strikes", but have derived new models. Both pornographic gambling and aggregated live broadcast have become Some new ways of making money for pornographic live broadcast platforms. When downloading many apps, the reporter also received a virus alert that comes with the mobile phone system. Experts reminded that there is a risk of users' personal information being stolen.
How to cure pornography live broadcast? The Shell Finance reporter's investigation found that many live broadcast platform operating teams and registered companies tend to evade supervision abroad, and the concealment and complexity of pornographic platforms have further increased compared with the past.
Pornographic live broadcast chaos: pornographic performance tempts users to give rewards, "local tyrants" can add anchor WeChat "private" appointments
"Welcome to Brother XX, a sports car and WeChat." "Brother, where are you from, come to me and you can make an appointment." On July 20, according to clues provided by netizens, the Shell Finance reporter downloaded several pornographic live broadcasts. APP, when you open a live broadcast room of a female anchor at random, you will often hear the above-mentioned explicit and provocative words.
The reporter found that female anchors generally only "interact" with users when they speak or give gifts. Therefore, it is the only way for female anchors to make money to attract users to brush gifts with various words.
However, most apps set a threshold for users to speak. If a reporter finds a system prompt when speaking in an APP, he must “recharge to a level 2 VIP member to speak”, and the recharge requires 38 yuan.
Before recharging, users can only browse the live broadcast rooms of each host. Most broadcasters set the name of the live broadcast room to attract clicks, such as "Young Woman Pan Jinlian", etc., or write the demand directly on the live room, such as "Sports car plus micro-send benefits" etc.
Among them, the recharge amount of different platforms is different. For example, in a pornographic live broadcast platform, among the gifts that users make to the anchor, a "sports car" costs 159 yuan, and a "firework" costs 399 yuan.
On July 26, a Shell Finance reporter randomly entered the live broadcast room of a female anchor on the platform and found that her fans had 11,000 and received a total of 13,500 yuan in gifts. Among them, the users who gave her gifts on the day were between 50 yuan and 300 yuan. Yuan varies, and there are “local tyrants” with more than 2,400 yuan in the “monthly list”. In the live broadcast, as the gifts are getting more and more, the pornographic performance of the female anchor becomes more and more explicit.
According to the previous interview with a pornographic anchor by the Legal Evening News, the income of such pornographic anchors varies according to the degree of openness and speaking skills. Some make more than 10,000 in three months, and some make in one week. Nearly 30,000 yuan.
On July 26, a reporter from Shell Finance and Economics browsed the "Anchor Recruitment Notice" on a pornographic live broadcast platform and found that the minimum salary for a pornographic anchor was 3,000 yuan. After the "registration", the basic salary is 5,000 yuan, and you can get a 20% gift commission. This has a greater temptation for some people. As the Legal Evening News reported, a female anchor involved in pornography stated that the reason for her career was "the family vegetable shop closed down, she has two children to raise, and she owes a lot of foreign debt."
Some people in the live broadcast industry told reporters that the average share of the official live broadcast platform and the anchor is 46 or 37. From this point of view, the amount of the share of the anchor of the pornographic live broadcast platform is less than that of the official live broadcast platform, but "the main income of this type of anchor In addition to rewards, there may also be a private "appointment" part, especially on many platforms that focus on sideballs. The anchor first entices netizens to recharge through sideballs on the platform, and then pulls the more recharged "local tyrants" into small groups and conducts privately Profit from pornographic trading."
Attorney Zhao Hu from Beijing Zhongwen Law Firm told reporters that this kind of behavior firstly violated the crime of spreading obscene materials. According to the "Criminal Law", for the purpose of making, copying, publishing, selling, or disseminating obscene materials, the penalty is not more than three years. Fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention, or surveillance shall be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years and shall be fined. In addition, for some anchors that are individually "available for appointment", they may also be involved in prostitution and whoring, which violates my country's Law on Public Security Administration Punishments.
The pornographic gambling is "uneven", and the pornographic platform and the gambling platform drain each other
Shell Finance reporter found that compared with the past, more and more pornographic live broadcast platforms have begun to seek income other than rewards, among which gambling is the most common "partner."
On a pornography-related live broadcast platform, almost every anchor has gambling tags such as "Mark Six" and "Baccarat" on the page, and even some anchors’ live broadcast rooms themselves are casinos. In China, the words "XX user bet X yuan in the Mark Six lottery" often pop up.
The Shell Finance reporter's investigation found that it is becoming more and more common for pornographic platforms and gambling platforms to drain traffic. For example, a live broadcast platform called "Moon Live Media Co., Ltd." not only has various anchors performing provocative live broadcasts, but also set up various gambling games such as "One Stake" and "Kan Pai Niuniu". You can recharge via bank card, Alipay, WeChat and other methods. "Marquis" users who recharge large sums can even appoint an anchor to do gambling instead of themselves. In addition, if you develop "lower players", you can get a 2% rebate of the lower level bet amount.
Correspondingly, some gambling platforms will also "airborne" female anchors to the city where the players are located for "local tyrant" players with large recharges, which further stimulates the enthusiasm of gamblers to recharge.
In this regard, Rong Zhiliang, a lawyer at Haihua Yongtai Law Firm, publicly stated that judging whether the APP is for entertainment or gaming activities under the name of a game can be based on the number of people participating in the gambling, the amount of capital invested, the amount of profit from the developer and the operator, and Judging whether it can be withdrawn and so on. If the platform not only provides gambling games such as "Baccarat", but also allows players to reverse the exchange of game tokens into RMB, and provides the so-called "exchange chips" and other functions, it can be judged as a gambling game.
"The issue of gambling may touch the law of public security management punishment and the criminal law." Zhao Hu told Shell Finance reporter, "General gambling, small amounts are relatively minor, large amounts may violate the law of public security management punishments, and gambling funds will be confiscated; If funding for gambling is a crime of gambling or opening a casino, criminal detention is required."
Most pornographic live broadcast platforms are deployed overseas, some with Trojan horses or steal users’ private information
The Shell Finance reporter found that most pornographic apps put the company's registered address overseas, such as the introduction of "Moon Live", which belongs to an entertainment group in the "British Virgin Islands"; and "Miss Sister Live" Many pornographic live broadcast platforms also claim to belong to a company in the "British Virgin Islands."
According to the police's anti-vice work report on such pornographic-related live broadcast platforms, many live broadcast platforms have their servers located abroad, and the high-level personnel of the platform also live abroad to avoid supervision.
In this regard, Fang Chaoqiang said that the server and the main creators’ live broadcast platforms in foreign countries will definitely not get the telecommunications business license. In addition, there are pornographic platforms where the anchors give rewards. The amount of the case should soon exceed the criminal standard. It may constitute the crime of illegal business operations.
It should be noted that when downloading many apps, the reporter received a virus notification that comes with the mobile phone system. For this, a live broadcast platform explained that it was because "the live broadcast room contains images that are difficult for people under 18 to watch, so there may be false alarms. Virus tips". However, an industry insider told reporters that such prompts are not related to pornographic images, but the system has detected that the APP contains Trojan horses or stealing user information.
In this regard, lawyer Fang Chaoqiang of Beijing Yingke (Hangzhou) Law Firm stated that a large part of telecommunications frauds often use pornography as a guise and bait as an entry point. In addition, these apps have no security rules and may steal cell phone data. , To provide the possibility for the subsequent telecommunication fraud, involving the crime of infringing on citizens’ information.
The Shell Finance reporter found that with the development of pornographic platforms, a type of "aggregated live broadcast" platform has recently emerged. This type of platform aggregates hundreds of live broadcast rooms of pornographic live platforms into one platform, which cannot directly Swipe gifts to the anchor, but can watch it as a tourist. Such "aggregated live broadcast" platforms make a living by selling advertisements.
On July 20, the Shell Finance reporter contacted the staff of an aggregated live broadcast platform. The other party said that the APP has 500,000 unique visitors daily, 2 million daily active users, and 6 million cumulative downloads. Welcome to post ads on the website to "drain traffic." "On-screen advertising is 35,000 yuan per month, and the live room is fixed for 23,000 yuan." When the reporter asked what advertisements are common, the other party replied "gambling or sex stations."
"From the perspective of advertising, this kind of Internet advertising clearly violates the Advertising Law: advertisements involving gambling and pornography are clearly prohibited from spreading, and the Telecommunications Regulations also have similar regulations." Fang Chaoqiang told reporters, "From the perspective of the Advertising Law and the Telecommunications Regulations, both constitute Administrative violations, to a deeper level, will constitute the crime of illegal business operations and the crime of spreading obscene materials for profit."
The reporter learned from the Office of the National Working Group on "Anti-pornography and Anti-illegal" Working Group Offices that starting from June this year, the National Cyberspace Administration of China and the National Office of "Anti-pornography and Anti-illegal" will work with the Supreme People's Court, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the State Administration of Market Supervision. , State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and other departments launched a six-month special rectification and standardized management action for the webcast industry. According to the clues reported by the masses and after verification and evidence collection, a batch of illegal and illegal webcasting platforms that disseminate obscenity, pornography, and serious vulgar and vulgar content have been punished by steps such as interviews, removals, and shutdown services; deployment investigations have been implemented. A batch of cases of using pornographic and vulgar live broadcast content to induce rewards, and imposed administrative penalties on some platforms for disseminating vulgar live content on the Internet.
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