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.

Another person in north China's Henan Province was sentenced to ten months in prison for illegally printing a Chinese dictionary and fined 20,000 yuan (2,500 U.S. dollars), it said.

A man who was convicted of selling pornographic DVDs and VCDs was jailed for five years and six months with a fine of 10,000 yuan (1,250 U.S. dollars), the office said.

Two people were each sentenced to one year in jail with a fine of 5,000 yuan (625 U.S. dollars) for violating intellectual property rights in Xiamen in the southeast, it said.

In the eastern city of Qingdao, a person was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 3,000 yuan (375 U.S. dollars) for selling pirated DVDs and computer software, it said.

Meanwhile, two production lines for pirating DVDs were broken in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, with the confiscation of more than 100,000 discs and 17 people were detained, the office added.

The authorities had broken 229 illegal DVD production lines, it said.

The government launched the biggest ever crackdown on piracy on July 15 against producers of unlicensed copies of movies, books, and software.

Source: Xinhua