Under pressure from the west, the Chinese government launched a crackdown on piracy in July. But, as China View (via) reports, they decided to make an issue of pornography while they were at it.

A person who was jailed for 12 years for selling pornographic goods was among six people imprisoned in China’s latest crackdown on piracy and pornography.

The person was also fined 5,000 yuan (625 U.S. dollars) after being convicted in the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the national anti-pornography and anti-piracy office said.

In related news, another person in China’s Henan Province was sentenced to ten months in prison for illegally printing a Chinese dictionary and fined 20,000 yuan and a man was convicted of selling pornographic DVDs and VCDs. He was jailed for five and a half years and fined 10,000 yuan.

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