The media repeatedly broke out that employees deleted databases and ran away. For such incidents, most Internet practitioners "laughed", trying to guess how wronged employees were, so that they knew that the ownership of the work results produced during their employment belonged to the company. Such an absurd thing. But recently, an incident disclosed by the Shanghai police in which an employee violated the copyright of the former company caused widespread discussion.
On November 21, 2022, the Internet Security Detachment of the Putuo Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau suddenly received a report from the staff of an Internet Technology Co., Ltd. Piracy" games, except for the game characters and background pictures, these two games are almost identical, they can be called "twins", so it is suspected that the internal source code may have been leaked. After receiving the police information, the police quickly set up a task force.
Starting from the company's game codes and servers, the police hired a number of professional electronic data judicial appraisal institutes to conduct a large number of detailed comparisons and analyzes of the similarities between the two games, and initially identified the two games on the server data sheets and server battle suits. The similarity between the game server and the client is astonishingly 100%, and the similarity between the server game server and the client is also around 90%. Obviously, this is an illegal copyright infringement.
After investigation and investigation, the police quickly identified the suspects as three former employees Lai, Wang and Wang who resigned from the company in 2021. After formulating a detailed arrest plan, on February 9, 2023, the police of the task force went to Shenzhen and successfully arrested Lai, Wang and Wang in an industrial park in Baoan District.
After the suspect arrived at the case, the police quickly launched an investigation. According to the information disclosed later, Lai, Wang and Wang were responsible for the development of a strategic online mobile game at the reporting company. This game was launched Afterwards, it was a great success, and soon attracted a large number of players to enter, and the three of them also received a generous commission. After seeing the success of this game, the three proposed to increase investment in the company to develop an upgraded version of the new game in order to obtain more benefits, but this idea was rejected by the company's management.
Ever since, with the dream of getting rich, the three of them registered and opened a new company in Shenzhen, and decided to go it alone. After many searches, in August 2021, Lai finally met Liang, the project manager of a Shanghai Jiading Network Technology Co., Ltd. Under his introduction, Lai, Wang and Yin, the boss of Liang's company, began to discuss game development work.
After communication, the two parties reached a cooperation agreement on online mobile games. Lai, Wang and Wang were responsible for providing the source code of a strategic online mobile game developed by the alarm company, and then "edited" the game by purchasing game character appearance files. After that, the company where Yin and Liang belonged changed their names and went online.
As for profit sharing, the two parties agreed that the company of Yin and Liang accounted for 85%, and the companies of Lai, Wang, and Wang accounted for 15% of the game business turnover funds.
According to preliminary statistics, from December 2021 to the incident, since the "dress-up" pirated game was launched, the company where Yin and Liang belonged to has obtained more than 150 million yuan in game revenue. A certain second share made a profit of more than 15 million.
As the case progressed, Lai, Wang and others successively explained relevant information. On June 2 and 3, the police successively arrested two suspects, Yin and Liang, who truthfully confessed to the police that they knew that the games provided by Lai, Wang and Wang were obtained illegally. The "skin-changing" game after the source code, in order to seek profits, still applies the "Computer Software Copyright Registration Certificate" and "Online Game Publishing Approval and Issuance Certificate" to implement the criminal facts of copyright infringement.
At present, criminal suspects Lai, Wang, and Wang are suspected of illegally obtaining computer information system data, and Yin and Liang are suspected of copyright infringement, and the Putuo police have taken criminal compulsory measures according to law, and the case is being further investigated. middle.