Tunxi district court in Huangshan city heard the city's first copyright infringement case last week. The defendant, surnamed Jiang, was sentenced to six months in jail with one year's probation and fined 40,000 yuan. Jiang started a music website at the end of 2011 and offered 253 MTV free downloads without authorization from the copyright owners. There were nearly 90,000 downloads from the website by last April. Jiang made illegal profit of more than 20,000 yuan from advertising.

(Source: China Daily)