"Legend of blood" is a large-scale online game with many users. The three people took a fancy to the impact of this game. Without the permission of the copyright owner, they set up private servers for players to play games, with an illegal business volume of more than 15 million yuan. On April 22 this year, after the prosecution of Ouhai District Procuratorate of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the court sentenced the defendant Liu to fixed-term imprisonment of three years, suspended for five years and fined 1.2 million yuan for copyright infringement; The defendant Xu was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of three years, suspended for five years and fined 1.2 million yuan. Another Liu is still at large**
According to the "anti pornography and anti illegal" Office of Zhejiang Province, they collected the game client of "Legend of hot blood" from the Internet, by modifying the game script, they successively produced different versions of "attack of the sun and the moon" game, put it on the website for players to download , and let players log in to Liu's leased and erected private network server to sell "game treasures" to players and collect players' transaction deposit.
After investigation, the three people have a clear division of labor and pay dividends according to shares. Liu is responsible for the overall technical support, accounting for 40% of the shares; Xu is responsible for the daily operation of private game servers, accounting for 40% of the shares; Liu is responsible for the promotion of the game, accounting for 20% of the shares.
From January 2016 to April 2020, the team illegally operated more than 15 million yuan through operating private servers
According to the appraisal of the copyright appraisal committee of China Copyright Protection Center, the game of "Sun Moon strike together" is substantially similar to that of "Legend of blood" in terms of characters, game maps, game equipment, skills, monsters and so on.
With the help of the platform of the intellectual property mediation room, the procuratorate has repeatedly interpreted and reasoned with the suspect, actively promoted the criminal reconciliation between the two parties through communication and docking, finally, the family members of the suspect will compensate the copyright owner RMB 1.5 million and obtain the understanding of the copyright owner**
Prosecutors introduced that private game servers belong to pirated online games, and their essence is an act of copyright infringement. Pirated games not only infringe the legitimate rights and interests of copyright owners, but also may seriously damage the physical and mental health of game participants, especially teenagers.
In order to enhance the excitement of the game and grab greater economic benefits, suspect often modify the game script and rules to make it easier for players to indulge.
