[Centennial Action] The similarity of the core code is as high as 90%?

Recently, in the "Hundred Days of Action" in the summer public security crackdown on the rectification, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau's Net Security Corps and Xuhui Branch successfully cracked a case of copyright in a well -known mobile game, arrested eight suspects, destroyed 2 places for the production and pirated game nests Essence

Pirated version before the shelves operate first

In July of this year, Xuhui Public Security Branch received a report from a network technology Co., Ltd., a game called "Magic Baby Memories" V1.0, which was commissioned by the company. Catal the code by other companies and operate in advance, causing huge economic losses.

According to reports, the company was commissioned by the rights party in May 2020 to conduct a mobile adaptation and secondary development of a PC game called "Magic Baby". In January 2022, the development of the game code was basically completed, and the software copyright certificate of the game code program was obtained in accordance with the convention of the game industry.

However, in the month after that, the company's staff successively discovered the same pirated games named "Magic Baby Nostalgic Edition" and "Dou Heyou". Provide game downloads and start operations, resulting in the client's refusal to pay the relevant development funds on the grounds that the same type of products appear in the market and do not meet the requirements of quality acceptance, resulting in the direct economic loss of the reporting company by more than 8 million yuan.

After receiving the report, the police made preliminary comparisons for the "Magic Baby Memories" developed by the "Magic Baby", "Dou Heyou" and the reporting company, and found that the pictures, gameplay and internal game program code of these games were highly consistent. After judicial appraisal, the game code of "Magic Baby Nosice" and "Dou Heyou" and the infringing game "Magic Baby Memories" code to remove invalid characters accounted for 90%of the number of infringing game characters. The game map name, travel route, NPC, props (title), BOSS -level monsters, and main scenes of the game maps involved in the game task are the same, and the substantive is similar.

According to this, the Xuhui Public Security Branch immediately set up a task force to conduct case investigation work under the guidance of the Municipal Public Security Bureau's Network Security Corps.

Deeply dig into the road of pirated piracy

During the work, the task force found that Zhang Moucheng, the actual controller of the Shanghai infringement company, who issued and operated games such as "Magic Baby" and "Dou Heyou", left in mid -2021 and left from the position of the deputy president of the reporting company. He was one of the heads of the game development team in the report company and had the opportunity to contact the source code of the game.

Taking this as a breakthrough, the police have continued to dig into a detailed investigation and gradually figured out the facts and suspects in the infringement case, and clarified the organizational structure, identity information and activities of the criminal gang. On August 2, 2022, the task force launched a centralized network collection operation in Guangzhou and Shanghai, and successfully captured eight suspects including Zhang Moucheng.

Police preliminary found that in September 2021, Zhang Moucheng, who had just left the report company, set up an infringement company and became a actual controller. In order to increase operating income, Zhang Moucheng found the company investor Zhang Moutong (a well -known online game company in Guangzhou (Guangzhou, a well -known online game company in Guangzhou Shareholder executives) planned to develop and operate pirated magic baby games. The two agreed: Zhang Moucheng's "dig" from the reporting company and managed to copy the game code.

After that, Zhang Moucheng dug Hu Mindu, Zhou Mouyuan and other technicians from the reporting company with double wages, the condition is to steal the game code of "Magic Baby Memories". After about two weeks of technical personnel such as Hu Mouming and Zhou Mouyuan, after two weeks, the invalid code and modified some variable parameters were "avoiding risks" on the basis of the source code. "Start the online test. However, on the second day of the test, the game was reported and asked to be removed.

However, the infringing company did not give up the game on the shelves because of this, but tried to "change the face" to go online. In February 2022, Zhang Moucheng used the soft and version number of other games under the instruction of Zhang Moutong, and set up a mobile game called "Dou Heyou" in the name of a new registered company in other provinces and cities. In addition to the name and icon, the mobile game is not the same as the "Magic Baby's Nostalgia", which is its "change of skin" version. Zhang Moucheng also found Xie Mouhua and others to drain and promote users on different platforms. Since the operation, the game has purchased game props through recharge, and the illegal revenue has made more than 23 million yuan.

At present, eight suspects Zhang Moutong, Zhang Moucheng, Xie Mouhua, Hu Mouming, and Zhou Mouyuan have been criminally compulsory measures by Xuhui Public Security Bureau for suspected violation of copyright. The case is under further investigation.

Legal link

Article 217 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that for the purpose of profit, without the permission of the copyright owner, copy the issuance of their text works, music, movies, television, video works, computer software and other works. Those who have other serious circumstances constitute the crime of infringing copyright.

Police reminder

In this case, criminal suspects such as Zhang Moutong and Zhang Moucheng used the authorization of the employees dug from the reporting company without obtaining the authorization of the rights. law justicfication.

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