Jung Jin-gwan, the head of the cyber safety division at the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Station, presents the results of an investigation into IT company head Yang Jin-ho and a spycam porn cartel, at a police station in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, Friday. / Yonhap |
By Lee Suh-yoon
After a months-long investigation into Yang Jin-ho, the owner of the nation's two biggest file sharing sites, police have confirmed the existence of a million-dollar cartel for the production and distribution of spycam porn videos.
Apart from owning WeDisk and Filenori, file sharing platforms where spycam clips and revenge porn were circulated, police found Yang had a hand in virtually every stage of the profitable operation.
"Through this investigation, we found Yang was the de-facto owner of not only the two online file sharing platforms but also a monitoring company supposed to filter out spycam content. It is also a digital undertaker agency that removes such content upon a request from victims, confirming the reality of a spycam porn cartel," Jung Jin-gwan, head of the cyber safety division at the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency, said in a press briefing, Friday.
Mureka, a company supposed to filter spycam porn content from the file sharing sites, was actually bought by WeDisk in 2008. Police said the operators intentionally refrained from using effective filtering methods, allowing the file sharing platforms to become a breeding ground for spycam porn.
According to officers, Yang made 7 billion won ($6.2 million) by distributing 52,000 porn clips ? about 100 of them were spycam clips ? and 230 pieces of copyrighted material. WeDisk and Filenori, together made over 55 billion won in sales from September last year to August.