24 November 2006
CHINESE MOVIE PIRATE SENTENCED TO LIFE
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CHINESE MOVIE PIRATE SENTENCED TO LIFE
In what may be the stiffest penalty yet for movie piracy, a man in China was sentenced to life imprisonment for reportedly operating the country's biggest bootleg DVD ring. The state-operated Xinhua news agency said that the man, Lin Yuehua, and 11 associates were convicted of producing 30 million bootleg DVDs and VCDs in an unnamed foreign country and smuggling them into China between 2002 and 2005. They were said to be worth $23.9 million.
24/11/2006
