Man downloading and watching porn at home fined 3,000 yuan

From Netease:

A young man named Yang Huajun (not his real name) likes to go online, one time by chance he joined a QQ group, and the members of the group often posted some pornographic videos and pictures. Out of curiosity, Yang Huajun often watched these pornographic materials, not for long, he started to download them in order to view them at any time. Until he was arrested by the local police, he was not aware of that his action had violated the law.

Yesterday, Nanxi County Yibing City Public Security Bureau’s network monitoring unit responsible person said: This unit has just cracked a case of allegedly using the Internet to spread and copy pornographic contents. The suspect Yang Huajun was arrested.

On February 26, 10 am, Yang Huajun had just turned off his computer and was preparing to go out from his home, then he heard a knock on his door. He thought it was his relatives so he hurried to open the door. When the door was open, there were numbers of unfamiliar faces; these strangers were the police officers of the Yibing Public Security Bureau network monitoring unit and the Nanxi County Public Security Bureau network monitoring unit.

The police examined Yang Huajun’s laptop computer and a desktop computer hard drives and identified a large number of pornographic materials allegedly downloaded from the Internet, including 39 video files (about 7 gigabytes), 526 pornographic pictures (about 80 megabytes). After the arrest, Yang Huajun confessed that he always loved the Internet. About six month ago, by chance, he joined a QQ group, dozens of the group members from time to time uploaded a few obscene pornographic videos and pictures, including some erotic videos and photos of celebrities in the entertainment circles, such as photos of naked actresses in the “sexy photo gate” (Edison Chen photo scandal).

“I was very curious, so often go to the group to browse” Yang said, and later it became a habit. For the ease of viewing, he directly downloaded some of the obscene pornographic videos and pictures onto his computers at home and built a dedicated folder so he could view them at any time.

Before the Spring Festival this year, the police began casting a huge net for catching the suspects using the Internet to spread pornography. Nanxi County Public Security Bureau Network monitoring unit was directed by the Yibin City police, to take over these big cases of distributing porn on the Internet. After receiving the order Nanxi county leaders, county Public Security Bureau chief Peng Yunli immediately asked the County network monitoring unit to investigate in the shortest time possible, to gather evidence and lock down the suspects.

Yibin City and Nanxi County, two network monitoring surveillance departments investigated from nearly 30 leads. And after half of month, one QQ number repeatedly jumped into their sights. After verifying that QQ number account often downloaded obscene videos and pictures from the Internet, its owner Yang Huajun was quickly locked up by the police.

According the captain of the network monitoring team Liu Yngna, the suspect when captured did not know his action of downloading pornography violated the law. He thought watching porn at home did not provoke anyone else. He reminds the public to pay attention to the connection between the virtual community and the real world. Online and offline are connected, when people’s actions in the virtual world are “dishonorable” can still be a crime.

Liu Yingnan pointed out that the suspect only was watching porn at home, he did not distribute them or try to make a profit. According to the 1997 “Computer Information Network and the Internet Security Protection and Management Law” promulgated by the Ministry of Public Security: Any organization or individual may not make use of the International network for copying, viewing and distributing obscene, pornographic contents. Yang Huajun was punished with a warning and a 3,000 yuan fine.