Chief of China's biggest Internet porn site jailed for life

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2006

BEIJING (AFP) — A 28-year-old man who ran China's most popular pornographic website community with up to 600,000 members has been jailed for life. Eight other organizers of "Pornographic Summer" were sentenced to prison terms of between 13 months and 10 years Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Except for one man who was aged over 50, the average age of the group was just 23, with ringleader Chen Hui 28 years old, Xinhua said. "Pornographic Summer", which was set up in 2004, and three other smaller websites Chen established since then attracted 600,000 members across China, according to Xinhua. The first 200,000 registered members did not have to pay any fees, but the others had to pay between 199 and 266 yuan (25 and 33 dollars) to join. A "top-level VIP...