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Communist documents on discipline targeted by pirates

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Local police in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi province, have detained two suspects in a copyright violation case involving two recent important documents of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

The Fangzheng Publishing House, publisher of the CPC Internal Supervision Regulations and the CPC Disciplinary Penalty Regulations, received report that pirated editions of the two documents appeared in Xi'an market shortly after they were officially published in February.

The two regulations, which put all the party's 68 million members, including its paramount leader and top decision-making body, under public supervision, became compulsory textbooks for communist members and best sellers after its publication.

The provincial administration of press and publication launched an investigation at the end of February on the piracy case and found over 4,000 pirated copies of the two regulations in a bookstore called Siyuan.

The bookstore owner named Li Cunjie fled after the store's illegal practice was exposed, but later surrendered himself.

Realizing the two regulations have become best sellers and are profitable, Li admitted, he scanned the two pamphlets himself and gave the copies to a local printer named Liu Taiguo, who has also been detained, for reproduction.

They printed a total of 14,000 copies. Besides the confiscated 4,000 copies, they also destroyed some themselves after their practice was exposed.

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