On November 9, a reporter from Nanduwan Finance learned from the WeChat public account of Jiangsu Higher People's Court that "Korean Drama TV" Xiong, Li, Huang, Zhang and Zhang conspired to place a large number of infringing Korean dramas online, and illegally operated by implant

11 On November 9, a reporter from Nanduwan Finance learned from the Jiangsu Higher People's Court WeChat public account that " Korean drama TV" Xiong, Li, Huang, Zhang and Zhang conspired to place a large number of infringing Korean dramas online, and illegally operated by implanting advertisements to make more than 2.21 million yuan. Relevant personnel were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from three years to one year and three months for copyright infringement, and fined between 1.19 million yuan and 130,000 yuan, and confiscated all illegal gains.

Subsequently, #5 relevant persons in charge of Korean drama TV were sentenced# and became popular on Weibo, attracting widespread attention from netizens.

In response to this, the official account of Korean drama TV issued a statement to refute the rumor that the "Korean drama TV" involved was a copycat Korean drama TV under Jiangyin Kushi, not an APP produced by us. The person in charge of

The person in charge of the copycat APP was sentenced to

The case of Jiangsu High Court shows that in early May 2020, the defendant Xiong believed that the brand of "Korean drama TV" owned by outsiders was good, so he did business Later, the defendant Xiong contacted the defendants Li and Huang, and the three of them conspired to launch the APP in the mobile application market, publishing a large number of infringing Korean dramas, Korean variety shows and other film and television works online, and collecting advertising fees by implanting advertisements in the APP and film and television works.

works include 795 episodes of Korean dramas such as " Crash Landing of Love", " Legend of the Blue Sea", "King", " Drunner Hotel ", and "Running Man", "Please Refrigerator", "The Voice of Korea", " Masked Singer " and other Korean variety shows 2127 episodes, and some of these works have transferred the network broadcasting rights to domestic video operators such as " Tencent Video ", " iQiyi ", "Youku", etc., and some of them have not been introduced by domestic related operators. While their respective division of labor, Xiong, Li, and Huang also recruited Zhang and Zhang. The original APP was improved and maintained.

From July 2019 to August 2020, the "Korean Drama TV" APP involved in the case was launched in the mobile application markets such as Huawei , OPPO, Xiaomi , VIVO, and other mobile application markets. It illegally copied 795 episodes of Korean dramas and 2127 episodes of Korean variety shows for people to watch, and advertising fees were collected from them, totaling the amount of illegal operations RMB 2.21 million.

days ago, the Jiangyin Court pronounced a verdict on the case of copyright infringement by Xiong and five others. Xiong, Li, Huang, Zhang and Zhang used the purpose of profit and jointly spread film and television works to the public through information networks without the permission of the copyright owner. The circumstances were particularly serious. Their behaviors constituted the crime of copyright infringement. According to law, Xiong and five others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from three years to one year to three months, and were subject to probation, and were subject to 1.19 million to 130,000 yuan. The fines and confiscation of all illegal gains were imposed. The first-instance judgment has taken legal effect.

official said that the other party was a copycat version

Subsequently, the official Weibo account of Korean TV released a statement saying that "the five relevant persons in charge of Korean TV were sentenced recently" have attracted everyone's attention. Here we solemnly declare that the Korean TV in the article is a copycat version of Korean TV under Jiangyin Kushi, and is not a APP produced by us. Please pay attention to distinguish it. "

It is understood that the official Korean drama TV account has undergone brand upgrade on September 26 and is officially renamed "Han Xiaoquan". It said that "technology is currently undergoing, and the content and pages of the APP will be adjusted later. Please wait for the service to be restored."

It is worth noting that whether it is the genuine "Korean TV" or its renamed Korean drama TV, the Apple App Store cannot be searched and downloaded.

information shows that the operating company behind the "Han Xiaoquan" is Shanghai Baoyun Network Technology Co., Ltd., one of the investors of the latter, Linzhi Yongxin Technology Co., Ltd. is an Tencent series company, and many shareholders are senior executives of Tencent companies.

Nanduwan Finance Society reporter Ye Lu