China News Service, February 3, According to the WeChat platform of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, since January 1st, Shanghai public security organs have uncovered more than 110 cases of infringement and counterfeiting, involving more than 400 million yuan, and protecting more than 160 Chinese and foreign companies. The legal rights of the brand.
Among the cracked cases, there was a website called "Renren Film and Television Subtitle Group", involving more than 16 million yuan.
This morning, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau held a press conference at which two recent detected cases were reported.
Shanghai police detect a case of copyright infringement of film and television works
In September 2020, the Shanghai police discovered during their work that someone provided online viewing and offline download of suspected infringing film and television works through the "Renren Film and Television Subtitle Group" website and client.
After contacting the relevant copyright owner, the above-mentioned film and television works have not obtained the authorization or permission of the copyright owner.
In response, the Economic Investigation Headquarters of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau conducted investigations in conjunction with the Hongkou Public Security Bureau.
Using two QR codes for payment of members on the website and the client and payment of peripheral products as a breakthrough, the police locked up Liang and Cong in Shandong, and Wang in Hubei, and quickly found out the entire crime. The organization structure of the gang.
After investigation, since 2018, the criminal suspect Liang and others have established multiple companies to set up and rent servers at home and abroad, develop, operate, and maintain the "Renren Film and Television Subtitle Group" APP and related websites.
Without the authorization of the copyright owner, download and obtain the source of the film through the website of overseas pirate forums, hire someone to translate and compress the film at a remuneration of about 400 yuan/part (set), upload it to the APP server for public dissemination, and use the receiving website Membership fees, advertising fees, and the sale of mobile hard drives for recording infringing film and television works illegally make profits.
Preliminary verification is now that the application software of each port has published more than 20,000 film and television works (sets), and the number of registered members is more than 8 million.
After three months of careful investigation, the Shanghai police, with the vigorous cooperation of the police in Shandong, Hubei, Guangxi and other places, detected the "9.8" extraordinarily large scale jointly supervised by the National Copyright Administration, the National Anti-Pornography Office, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Supreme Procuratorate. In the case of copyright infringement of film and television works in the province, 14 criminal suspects headed by Liang were arrested, 3 companies involved in the case were investigated, and 20 mobile phones and 12 computer hosts and servers were seized. The amount involved was more than 16 million yuan.
Shanghai police detect the first case of infringement of business secrets in the city
Recently, the Shanghai police successfully investigated the city’s first case of infringement of business information-related business secrets in Jiangsu, Shandong, Hubei, Fujian and other places after careful investigation, arrested 7 criminal suspects and seized more than 130 infringing documents with a capacity of up to 16G. A large number of product inventory information, discount prices, and delivery time of a well-known sports brand have been released on multiple mobile apps. This information is still a trade secret.
Through their own small programs, the goods that were snapped up by undisclosed operating information were sold at a price increase.
As a result, this criminal network that steals, sells, and publishes the operating information of the rights company, rushes to buy, hoards, and sells the sports goods of the rights company at a price increase has surfaced.
At present, the public security organs have taken criminal coercive measures against the above seven suspects in accordance with the law.
The case is under further investigation.
The police reminded not to buy pirated products, browse pirated websites, or download pirated materials.
At the same time, when publishing relevant text and video content on some self-media platforms and personal network spaces, we must raise the awareness of "copyright" and protect the original achievements of others and ourselves simultaneously.
If you find clues about infringement, violation of law and crime, please report to the public security organ in time.