{"id":30169,"date":"2015-08-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/08\/20150828_171910.shtml"},"modified":"2015-08-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:00:00","slug":"11-arrested-for-pirating-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/08\/28\/11-arrested-for-pirating-games\/","title":{"rendered":"11 arrested for pirating games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Crime_02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers have arrested 11 men, seizing 142 pirated video games and circumvention devices worth $60,000 in Sham Shui Po.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The arrestees, aged 24 to 38, were shop owners and sales staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers found some of the shops did not have a business registration and could change their company names easily, hindering investigations and putting consumer rights at risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made on August 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Copyright Ordinance prohibits the selling circumvention devices or pirated video games. The maximum penalty is four years\u2019 jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Call the Customs hotline &#8211; 2545 6182 &#8211; to report suspected piracy activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Crime_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers have arrested 11 men, seizing 142 pirated video games and circumvention devices worth $60,000 in Sham Shui Po.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The arrestees, aged 24 to 38, were shop owners and sales staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officers found some of the shops did not have a business registration and could change their company names easily, hindering investigations and putting consumer rights at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made on August 26.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Copyright Ordinance prohibits the selling circumvention devices or pirated video games. The maximum penalty is four years&rsquo; jail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Call the Customs hotline &#8211; 2545 6182 &#8211; to report suspected piracy activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30170,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30169\/revisions\/30170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}