By IANS,
Beijing : At least 31 people were arrested Thursday in a city in east China for allegedly running a pornographic website that contained over 20,000 videos, one million pictures and 3,000 erotic articles, Xinhua reported.
The website’s 27-year-old founder, surnamed Liu, is a disabled elementary school drop-out, police said.
The man set up the website — named “SIS360 online entertainment” — in September last year, by renting a web server in the US to dodge supervision of the cyber police, officials said in Nantong city in Jiangsu province.
Liu said he was hoping the porn business could help relieve his family’s financial difficulties.
He taught himself about internet and English language skills, and managed to set up the website all by himself, police said.
The business grew and Liu employed 30 people to help operate the site.
It had attracted more than 40,000 registered members from more than 20 Chinese cities before it was shut down. There were more than 10,000 daily visits to the website.
The suspects were arrested between May and July by a joint police team from 18 cities.
Pornography is illegal in China. More than 60,000 websites were closed in 2010.