Police are investigating Yang Jin-ho, chairman of the Korea Future Technology Association, as an "accomplice" rather than a "disgruntled" distributor of pornography.

In the meantime, web hard companies have been defending logic that heavy uploaders were limited in filtering out pornography voluntarily uploaded, but the police decided that Yang was contributing to pornography circulation through implicit conspiracy.

It is said that the police's willingness to investigate the so-called 'Web-hard cartel' investigation is revealed.

The Cyber ​​and Criminal Investigation Team of the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency of the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency applied criminal law Article 30 (Common Officer) in violation of the Information Network Act and copyright law regarding the distribution of pornography among the criminal charges of Mr. Yang.

It means that Mr. Yang implicitly participated in the crime, not just the distribution of pornography.

It is unusual for an investigating agency to consider a web hard business official as a sexual material distribution accomplice and to punish it.

In the process of keeping public records, WebHard side can be found guilty if there is a technical and physical limitation in filtering the voluntary file sharing of uploaders. In most cases, it is not 'accomplice' but ' It was a common practice to be treated.

In accordance with Article 32 of the Criminal Act, a rebel is reduced to his brother than an accomplice.

The police also decided to apply the copyright law, which is punishable by imprisonment for up to five years or a fine of up to 50 million won, according to the Information and Communications Network Act.

According to the court case, the court recognized the copyright of commercial pornography produced in Japan and other pornography.

In particular, the police are also investigating whether the company has captured the context in which the video was uploaded from a company IP of which the two chairmen are the real owners, and whether the company has systematically uploaded pornographic material to the web hard.

In addition, along with Yang and the chairman of the police, 14 police officers, including Lee Ward, Panyori, and Mureka, who have disturbed the web hard market, and 115 heavy loaders who posted various pornographic materials were charged.

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