China's National Copyright Administration (NCA) on Wednesday
launched a system to reward information on piracy.
An organization or individual who provides information that
leads to a prosecution would receive a reward of up to 100,000 yuan
(US$13,000), the NCA said in a press release.
But the reward could exceed 100,000 yuan for informants who made
critical contributions to a case with national significance or
involving an unusually large sum of money, the statement said.
"If there are two or more tipsters on one case, they will decide
how to share the reward or just divide it evenly," it said.
The administration has established a tip-off processing center
with a hot line -- 12390 -- and email address: "jubao@ncac.gov.cn."
The center would keep the identities of informants confidential
unless they agreed to publicity, the NCA said.
Those who contributed to investigating a piracy case would also
be rewarded with up to 100,000 yuan for an organization and up to
10,000 (US$1,300) to an individual.
Chinese authorities have carried out successive campaigns
against piracy. The NCA, the police and Ministry of Information
Industry are conducting a campaign against on-line piracy from
August to October.
(Xinhua News Agency September 27, 2007)