Chinese police have arrested a man for allegedly profiting from
a self-produced Internet game involving cyber sex, a spokesman with
the Ministry of Public Security said on Wednesday.
By the time Dai was arrested on June 5, he had made more than
30,000 yuan (US$3,900) from the game's 700 paying players, the
spokesman said.
A failed Internet company manager, Dai invented a porn cyber
game featuring human sexual activity in March and set up a paid
website to promote the game, dubbed "Girlfriend Hut".
"In recent years, Internet games have become a booming and
profitable market, but some games with a sexually explicit nature
are corrupting China's vast number of young players," the spokesman
said.
Police investigators found that Dai's website had attracted more
than 200,000 registered members before it was stopped.
The Chinese government have taken a series actions to protect
the young from the negative effects of on-line gaming, including
introducing an anti-addiction system and ordering a crackdown on
"vice content" providers.
The number of Internet users in China reached 123 million in
mid-2006. About 15 percent -- or 18 million -- are under the age of
18.
(Xinhua News Agency June 20, 2007)