"Maybe he was the first one of all the ticket grabbing software developers to be caught." Li Xiujiao, Mo's defense lawyer, revealed in Weibo that the meeting with Mo ended at the detention center of Urumqi Railway Public Security Bureau.
Li Xiujiao introduced that after Mo Mou, the developer of the ticketing software, made the plug-in, his brother sold the software online. The police found that someone "resold" the ticket after purchasing the software. Mo was arrested on suspicion of damaging the computer information system, reselling tickets and perjury, but the prosecution has not yet approved the arrest.
Li Xiujiao said that using the ticketing software to help people grab tickets and charge them is no different from buying tickets for young couples in Foshan.
According to the railway police, 25 suspects involved in the case made profits by selling train tickets at high prices and were suspected of reselling tickets and boat tickets.
The ticket grabbing software developer is suspected of illegal operation.
"Momo didn't get the business license and telecom business license, but made and sold the ticketing software. This behavior mainly involves the crime of illegal business operations and is not a crime of destroying computer information systems. " Zhao Zhanling, an IT legal expert and a special researcher at the Intellectual Property Center of China University of Political Science and Law, believes that the ticketing software does not delete, modify or add the data and applications of the 12306 website, and does not belong to "destructive programs such as computer viruses".
However, Zhao Zhanling also pointed out that the only thing related to this is the first paragraph of Article 286 of the Criminal Law, which interfered with the website of 12306 and caused the system to fail to operate normally. However, according to this clause, it is "interference" to use the ticketing software for many times instead of manual ticketing, so every user is suspected of committing a crime. "In fact, the reason why the system can't operate normally lies in the technical problems of the website itself, not in the users who use the ticketing software, and not in the author of the ticketing software."
Zhao Zhanling said that ordinary users use the ticketing software to buy tickets for themselves, and there is neither reselling for profit nor destroying computer information systems, so there is no legal problem. However, if a large number of tickets are snapped up by using the ticketing software and then resold at a high price, it will undermine the normal order of ticket purchase and its management, violate the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Railways to crack down on scalping, and if the circumstances are serious, it is suspected of constituting a criminal offence.