China Jails Founder of Top Pirated Movie Site Renren Yingshi

The founder of China’s largest subtitling site Renren Yingshi has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after being found to have pirated more than 30,000 Chinese and foreign TV shows and movies, a court in Shanghai ruled Monday.

Liang Yongping was also fined 1.5 million yuan ($234,915) for the copyright infringement (link in Chinese), according to a statement published by the Shanghai No.3 Intermediate People’s Court, which made the ruling after hearing his case.