The Chinese government is heightened its efforts to curb pornography with a plan to launch a campaign tackling the rampant practice of pornography sharing and hosting on cloud storage platforms.

The National Office against Pornographic and Illegal Publications, law enforcers, website administrators as weell as industrial and publication officials will all collaborate in the campaign. The goal of the drive is to implement strict supervision of cloud storage enterprises and hold them liable for the security of their platforms.

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China's anti-pornography office recently revealed six cases of individuals in the pornography business. The suspects allegedly sell account names and passwords to users to visit cloud storage-hosted pornography. One case involved a man identified as Liu Hangjie, who was sentenced to three years in prison by the court in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.

Liu was found guilty of selling access to pornography hosted on cloud storage websites. Liu charged his customers 50 yuan ($7.68) in exchange to individual cloud storage accounts that have access to more than 10,000 pornographic videos.

Cloud storage platforms usually used by porn makers include Qihoo 360, a Chinese Internet security firm, and LeTV, China's biggest online video enterprise.

Since 1949, China has outlawed pornography. In the past, individuals caught dealing in pornography - including creating, distributing and using porn materials - were usually fined or just warned. However, in 2005, the person behind the biggest porn website in the country was sentenced to life imprisonment, while the workers were jailed between 13 months to 10 years.

Chinese authorities launched the Cleaning the Web campaign in 2014, calling for stringent inspection on websites, mobile apps, search engines and Internet TV providers for possible pornographic content.

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