A number of e-retailers selling virtual reality (VR) devices are facing some real legal problems for sweetening their deals with free porn, Xinhua reported Saturday.
So far authorities in Shenzhen are charging 19 vendors on e-commerce platforms for distributing pornographic videos along with the VR devices.
According to prosecutors in the city's Baoan district, three suspects were charged on December 21 for sending customers more than 800 links to online pornography, Xinhua reported Friday.
To date a total of 27 people in nine cases have been detained on suspicion of spreading pornography, according to an release by the Shenzhen People's Procuratorate.
All but one of the suspects are under age 30, with some younger than 18, the procuratorate said.
Some were pulling in up to 3 million yuan ($432,574) a month with offers of free porn videos, a common practice among VR sellers, the release said.
Links to videos were sent through QQ or shared on Baidu cloud drive accounts that sometimes held up to 2 terrabytes of pornography, the Xinhua report said.
