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Is it illegal to sell pirated games?
illegal or pirated games infringe other people's intellectual property rights, and if the amount of illegal gains is large or there are other serious circumstances, it constitutes a crime of copyright infringement and requires criminal responsibility. If the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined. If the amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.

1. How many years are you sentenced to selling pirated games?

1. Simply selling pirated software is called selling infringing copies, and the perpetrator must have a huge amount of illegal income to make a crime.

2. The amount of illegal income is huge, which means that the amount of personal illegal income is more than 1, yuan or the amount of unit illegal income is more than 1, yuan. If the amount of illegal income does not reach the above standards, it cannot constitute a crime.

II. Penalties for infringing the intellectual property rights of others are as follows:

1. Whoever imitates another person's patent, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined.

2. Whoever uses the same trademark as the registered trademark on the same commodity without the permission of the registered trademark owner, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined;

3. If the circumstances are particularly serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.

III. Crimes of infringing intellectual property rights include:

1. Crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks, crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks, and crime of illegally manufacturing or selling illegally manufactured registered trademarks;

2. Crime of infringing copyright and selling infringing copies;

3, the crime of counterfeiting patents; Crime of infringing trade secrets.

Legal basis:

Article 217 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China

For the purpose of making profits, if one of the following cases of copyright infringement occurs, if the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and if the amount obtained by the fine method is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years. And impose a fine:

1. Reproduction and distribution of written works, music, movies, television, video works, computer software and other works without the permission of the copyright owner

2. Publication of books with exclusive publishing rights enjoyed by others

3. Reproduction and distribution of audio and video recordings made by the audio and video producers without the permission of the audio and video producers; 4. Production and sale of artistic works with forged signatures.