Use game vulnerabilities to sell virtual currencies and props?You may have violated the criminal law!

Basic case

The defendant Su Moumou found that someone sells game props at low prices when he played Xianxia's mobile game in 2019. After searching through the Internet, he found that you can use game vulnerabilities to obtain items, copy resources, currencies in the game, etc. Studies, Su Moumou mastered this method.

At the end of March 2021, a WeChat friend recommended a game to Su Moumou. After downloading, Su Moumou found that the game had loopholes. The previous method of mastering could obtain the game virtual currency and props without compensation. Su Moumou informed Su Moujia and Su Mouyi to ask them to help them go to the game to sell the virtual currency they brushed in the game at the price lower than the game official mall.

From April 1st to 3rd, 2021, the defendant Su Moumou sold more than RMB 59,000 in the game virtual currency obtained by the above means. Among them, the defendant Su Moumou sold the money for RMB 10,599, and passed the defendant Zhang Moumou. A sale of RMB 38,300 for sale, selling RMB 10,300 through the defendant Zhang Mi.

After the incident, the defendants Su Moumou, Zhang Moujia, and Zhang Mouyi refunded the game company RMB 60,000, 20,000 yuan, and 5,000 yuan. During the trial of the case, the defendant Su Moumou withdrew the illegal income of RMB 42,159, the defendant Zhang Moujia withdrew the illegal income of RMB 11,490, and the defendant Zhang Mouyi withdrew the illegal income of RMB 5,550.

Referee

The Jiangyin Court heard that the defendant Su Moumou violated the regulations of the country and co -organized illegal technical means with the defendant Zhang Moujia and Zhang Mouyi alone to obtain a computer information system outside the field of national affairs, national defense construction, and cutting -edge science and technology fields. Data, the defendant Su Moumou and Zhang Moujia are particularly serious. The defendant Zhang Mouyi is serious. People Zhang Moujia and Zhang Mi jointly implemented a common crime.

The defendant Su Moumou played a major role in the common crime. The main criminal should be punished in accordance with all the criminal punishments he participated. In view of the truthful confession of his crimes after his return, he voluntarily confess his crimes and has withdrawn from illegal income. The defendants Zhang Moujia and Zhang Mouyi played a secondary role in the joint crime and were committed to the offending; given the truth after the case, voluntarily confessing their crimes, voluntarily confessing and confession, and withdrawn from illegal income. The defendant Zhang Mi was punished lightly.

In the end, the Jiangyin Court sentenced the defendant Su Moumou to three years in prison for illegal obtaining the computer information system data, three years and six months in probation, and fined 30,000 yuan. One year and six months, and fined RMB 10,000; the defendant Zhang Mouyi was sentenced to six months in prison, one year in probation, and a fine of RMB 5,000.

Judge remind

Although the game world is different from the real world, behavior is still restricted by law. Drilling the game BUG vulnerability, violating national regulations, and criminal responsibility in accordance with the law. The legal attributes of the game equipment are the data of computer information system. The defendant in this case is the behavior of illegal acquisition of computer information system data to obtain props to obtain props. Here I remind the majority of gamers that the virtual world is not a place outside the law. Do not be lucky and do whatever you want. Do not have a chance to try the law.

Source: Jiangyin People's Court

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