Hunan: Novel pirate nabbed

2013/06/25

A man in Changsha county was recently detained for illegally copying and reposting nearly 10,000 novels online. The suspect, surnamed Liu, copied works from the Chinese novel website Qidian, and reposted them onto his own websites. Qidian requires membership or payment to read novels, but Liu's websites offered the content for free, so it attracted many readers and advertisers. The local police said that advertisements generated illegal income totaling more than 60,000 yuan.

(Source: China Daily)