Write your own pornographic novels and sell them yourself？ Hubei cracked the first case of illegal publishing by online writers.

Cctv newsRecently, the National Office of "Combating Pornography and Illegal Publications" reported that a case of publishing and distributing illegal publications through the Internet was uncovered in Wuhan, Hubei Province, involving more than 10 million yuan, and eight people were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.

Since July 2017, the office of "eliminating pornography and illegal publications" in Hubei Province has received a report, saying that Tang, an online writer with the pen name "Mr. Deep Sea", is suspected of selling and selling illegal publications online. The "eliminating pornography and illegal publications" department of Wuhan City, in conjunction with the public security organs of Wuhan City, immediately set up a task force to carry out investigation and arrest. Subsequently, the task force went to many provinces and cities several times, and successively arrested online writer Tang and others, and destroyed four storage warehouses, printing departments and printing houses, and seized more than 20,000 copies of 41 kinds of illegal publications. This case is the first criminal case investigated and dealt with in Hubei Province, in which an online writer illegally published a publication, that is, the author printed his own publication without going through a publishing house.

Police of Wuhan Public Security BureauThe night we arrested him, he was working on a new work in the hotel where he lived.

It is found that Tang has been writing novels on the Internet for a long time, and published his own novels on the website for others to read by writing and serializing. Knowing that the five novels he wrote could not be published by the publishing unit stipulated by the state, Tang contacted Yin and Dong, who opened Taobao shop, respectively, to publish and distribute the above books to the readers through their online shop. The three agreed on the profit-sharing ratio of sales, with Yin and Dong selling in the online shop first and helping to contact printing, and then further selling in the online shop for profit. After investigation, more than 12,000 (12,372) copies of the above novels were printed, and the illegal business amount was more than 1.18 million yuan.

Hubei province "eliminate pornography and illegal publications" officeThe book written by Mr. Shen Hai contains pornographic content, homosexuality including pedophilia, and the reporter claims that it is very harmful to the physical and mental health of minors.

The task force also found out that online shop sellers Yin Mou, Dong Mou and others not only published and distributed illegal publications for writer Tang Mou, but also helped many other online writers to make and sell illegal publications, and the illegal business amounted to several million yuan.

On May 15, 2019, the Wuchang District People’s Court of Wuhan City sentenced the defendant Tang to four years in prison for the crime of illegal business operation; At the same time, seven other defendants, including Yin Mou and Dong Mou, were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from one year to three years and six months.