Shanghai Daily reports:

WANG Yuchuan, a former employee of a network company, was yesterday sentenced to one and a half years in prison and fined 50,000 yuan (US$6,757) for copyright infringement of a popular online game.

Fortunately for him, he has enough money to pay the fine:

Wang stole the computer code of the game “Zhengtu” and sold the code to some buyers for 130,000 yuan. Two of his buyers, Wang Yan and Tang Shuai, sold the code again for 200,000 yuan later and were caught by police when trading. They were sentenced to one year and 10 months’ jail respectively.

I’m surprised that Mr. Wang will still be able to profit from the theft. RMB80,000 is a nice little nest egg. I wonder if he’ll be able to call his broker from the pokey.

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