Buying virtual currency with illegal profits

1. To judge whether it is MLM or not, we need to analyze the legal connotation of this behavior from a legal point of view. If the following conditions are met, it belongs to MLM< According to the "Regulations on the prohibition of pyramid selling":
Article 2, pyramid selling refers to that the organizer or operator's development personnel seek illegal benefits by calculating and paying remuneration to the developed personnel based on their number of directly or indirectly developed personnel or sales performance, or requiring the developed personnel to obtain the qualification of joining in the condition of paying a certain fee, Disturbing economic order and affecting social stability< Article 7 the following acts belong to pyramid selling:
(1) organizers or business operators, through development personnel, require other personnel developed by the developed personnel to join, and calculate and pay remuneration (including material rewards and other economic benefits, the same below) to the developed personnel based on the number of personnel developed directly or indirectly, so as to seek illegal benefits
(2) the organizer or business operator, through the developer, requires the developed person to pay fees or pay fees in disguised form by way of subscribing for commodities, so as to obtain the qualification of joining or developing other persons to join and seek illegal interests
(3) the organizer or business operator, through the development personnel, requests other personnel developed by the development personnel to join, forms the relationship between the upper and lower line, and calculates and pays the online remuneration based on the sales performance of the lower line, so as to seek illegal interests
in the regulations on the prohibition of pyramid schemes, the concept of hierarchical relationship is repeatedly mentioned. The hierarchical relationship formed by certain rules is only a phenomenon in many pyramid schemes. It must be related to the illegal possession of other people's property before it can be suspected of pyramid schemes.

3. No, the money is your own. You can buy anything you want, except guns, ammunition, drugs, whoring and nothing else

4. At this stage, virtual currency has not been officially counted as legal income

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I wanted to buy money to make a profit, but I didn't want the issuing party to become a pyramid selling organization, suspected of breaking the law and committing crimes; All participating funds will be collected. At this time, whether the money can be recovered has become the most concerned problem of the buyer. The crime of organizing and leading pyramid selling activities is established, and the relationship of accomplice is usually established between the upper and lower levels of pyramid selling activities; All the money raised is usually regarded as illegal income. After being cheated into joining, they recommend others to join and get tokens and cash back, and the profits will usually be recovered as illegal income. So if you are cheated into joining an organization, can you recover the "entry fee" you paid

First, recovery does not necessarily mean confiscation, but restitution

Second, the scope of recovery: illegal income within the scope of crime

Third, the calculation of "illegal income"

who returns the money: Calculation of "illegal income"

according to Article 64 of the criminal law, only "illegal income" should be recovered and refunded. Illegal income, literally, refers to the property obtained through illegal activities (including but not limited to crimes). The second provision of the Supreme People's Procuratorate "the regulations on the management of property in criminal cases involving the people's Procuratorate" stipulates that the property involved includes the illegal gains and the fruits of the suspect, the property used for the crime, the prohibited goods illegally held and other property and fruits related to the case. p> According to the above provisions, the crime of illegal income is divided into two categories according to the basis of illegal income:

(1) the illegal income in the crime of obtaining interests; Such as theft, corruption, bribery of stolen goods, property, etc

(2) the crime of operating interest, such as the crime of usury

it can be seen that illegal income not only includes the property obtained through illegal and criminal activities (i.e., original illegal income, profit type), but also includes the possible natural and legal fruits of these properties and the property interests (i.e., derived illegal income, profit type) obtained from the operation of the property. For the former, the activities that generate income are illegal; Income is the object or result of illegal behavior. For the latter, the activities that generate income are legal; Only the principal used to generate income is suspected to be illegal

the above two types of illegal gains are generated in different ways, and their recovery calculation methods are also different. For the illegal income of the crime of obtaining interests, the illegal property itself is the amount of illegal income; As for the illegal income of the crime of business interests, the normal business interests should be dected. For example, in the crime of usury, the illegal income usually refers to the income from interest rate difference, not the total amount of the loan

In terms of norms, the attitude of the law is also very clear: in the reply of the Supreme People's Court on how to determine the "amount of illegal income" in the trial of criminal cases involving the proction and sale of fake and shoddy goods in 1995, it is pointed out that the "amount of illegal income" stipulated in the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on punishing the crime of procing and selling fake and shoddy goods refers to the amount of illegal income from the proction and sale of fake and shoddy goods The amount of profit from selling fake and inferior procts. In the literal sense, the "illegal income" here should be dected from the corresponding cost

In judicial practice, it is generally believed that the amount of procts actually purchased is the amount of legitimate business and should be dected; In the case of providing services without actual procts (for example, manpower input in illegal medical practice), the corresponding costs will not be dected

in the crime of organizing and leading pyramid selling activities, there are cases of "Capitation" returning to "online". According to Article 8 of the measures for the determination of illegal income from administrative penalty cases by the administrative department for Instry and Commerce (No. 37 order of the State Administration for Instry and Commerce), the illegal income from pyramid selling activities such as touting and defrauding entry fees shall be calculated according to the total income of the parties concerned

it can be seen that the "tap" paid to the online is not the income of the parties at this level in the MLM organization; It is the income of online, which should be dected and counted into the amount of illegal income of online. After the illegal income collected as online, it should be returned to offline in time according to the above

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6. It's not against the law, but if the other party deceives you, you can't recover the money. It's an illegal debt. It's not protected by law. Virtual currency is not issued by the monetary authority. It doesn't have the monetary attributes of legal compensation and compulsion. It's not a real currency. It doesn't have the same legal status as currency. It can't and shouldn't be used as currency in the market, Citizens' investment and transaction of virtual currency are not protected by law
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7. Due to the lack of legal provisions, the handling of the theft of virtual property, which is different from the real theft, is very inconsistent in different places: some public security organs do not file a case, some impose a warning, fine or public security detention on the perpetrator in accordance with the relevant provisions of the regulations on the security protection of computer information systems and the administrative measures for the security protection of computer information network international networking; Some courts have convicted and sentenced the defendant for theft, while others think that this is not in line with the principle of a legally prescribed punishment for a specified crime. Because the virtual property such as q-coin has not been regarded as a property right in law, they have sentenced the defendant to the crime of obstructing the freedom of communication. Different courts have ruled that in online games, many game masters can sell these game coins after earning a lot of game coins. This also includes some network hackers who steal the QQ number and then the QQ coin bound with the QQ number. These people often change the stolen Q currency into game currency, and then change the game currency into Q currency to launder money, and then sell it for cash
case 1 recently, the court of Jinjiang District of Cheng sentenced Yang Xiaolong, a "cyber thief", to eight months' imprisonment for theft. Yang Xiaolong has repeatedly stolen the virtual currency in seven online game recharge accounts of a company in Cheng, and used the virtual currency to buy game cards to sell money, making an illegal profit of more than 1300 yuan

case 2: in a previous case of QQ number theft decided by Shenzhen intermediate people's court, the prosecutor initiated a public prosecution in accordance with the crime of theft. However, the judge held that QQ number has not been regarded as a property right in China's law, so it did not support the determination of theft and sentenced the defendant to the crime of obstructing freedom of communication
in case 3, ring the two periods of September 29, 2004 and August to October, 2004, many players in the online game "Dahua Xiyou II" (Netease operation) found their equipment stolen one after another. On November 9, 2004, Netease reported the case to the Internet Supervision Department of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau, and the police arrested the suspect while concting offline transactions. On December 25, 2005, Tianhe District Court of Guangzhou city declared him guilty of theft and fined him 5000 yuan. The defendant refused and appealed. At the end of March 2006, the second instance of Guangzhou intermediate people's court decided to reject the appeal and maintain the original judgment
in case 4, from March to July 2005, the defendants Zeng and Yang sold the cracked QQ number to others. The two defendants sold more than 160 QQ numbers and got more than 70000 yuan of stolen money. On November 28, 2005, Shenzhen Nanshan procuratorate sued Zeng and Yang for theft to Shenzhen Nanshan District People's court. Nanshan District People's court held a trial on December 9, 2005, and made a judgment on January 13, 2006. The two defendants were sentenced to six months' detention for the crime of infringing freedom of communication
is virtual property protected by law
no matter Tencent q-coin or Sina u-coin, they are just data symbols used to represent certain goods or services provided by an Internet manufacturer. So far, no bank has been involved in the launch of this "network virtual currency". Because there is some competition between manufacturers, their "network virtual currency" system is often independent of each other. Therefore, "network virtual currency" can not circulate in real society like RMB. In addition, the "network virtual currency" is only a kind of delivery voucher, and almost all manufacturers that launch the "network virtual currency" do not provide the service of "network virtual currency" cashing back. The two-way or even multi-directional circulation is the basis of money being able to act as a general equivalent. The characteristic of "one-way circulation" determines that "network virtual currency" cannot act as a general equivalent. Unless we can freely and legally convert this "delivery voucher" into real cash or electronic currency. Therefore, it is only a virtual property, not a real property, and can not be the object of legal protection in China
online virtual property theft, which is characterized by stealing and selling online game accounts of major online game companies, Tencent QQ coins and game equipment, is expanding and upgrading. This not only seriously damages the legitimate rights and interests of users, but also poses a great threat to the normal operation of Internet enterprises. Therefore, the case of network virtual property theft can be classified as theft, the victim can report the situation to the public security department, but there must be two kinds of proof to file a case: one is that the victim must prove that he really owns the virtual property, the other is that there is evidence to prove that his virtual property is really stolen. If two kinds of proof are available, and the suspect is found, he can be convicted. Because, at present, the National People's Congress has not legislated on this, and this kind of case belongs to special theft, that is, this kind of crime can be punished as theft

there are mainly three views on the legal attribute of network virtual property in the theoretical and judicial circles, namely, the theory of property rights, the theory of intellectual property rights and the theory of creditor's rights. Although the network virtual property is different from the general property, but in my opinion, it is intangible property. Article 75 of China's general principles of civil law clearly stipulates that "citizens' personal property includes citizens' lawful income, houses, savings, daily necessities, cultural relics, books and materials, trees, livestock, means of proction and other lawful property that are permitted by law to be owned by citizens."“ "Other legal property" can be interpreted broadly, and network virtual property such as q-coin and virtual weapons can be classified as "other legal property" because of their basic properties. Citizen's property includes both tangible and intangible. Network virtual property should be one of intangible assets. Q-coin can be purchased directly from game developers, or obtained from the virtual currency market, so it has the property of general commodity. But whether it is creditor's rights or property rights, or intellectual property rights, this issue is the root of the current judicial and academic disputes. Virtual property is a kind of property with legal significance, which should be protected by law. As a kind of intangible property, virtual property has its own unique attributes and characteristics, which is different from the traditional tangible property and intangible property. The protection of virtual property should not be included in the category of real right or creditor's right mechanically, so it is necessary to protect it by separate legislation. The acquisition of virtual property needs to pay the corresponding time, energy and money, which has the characteristics of virtual space, tradability, value and time limit. In the network virtual space and time limit, it reflects the property value of virtual property, and shows the actual material interests in real life. It is precisely because of the transaction and value of the virtual property, as well as the paid nature of the acquisition, that the virtual property has the property nature. On the other hand, virtual property can also be possessed, used, benefited and disposed, and become the object of legal relationship. Therefore, virtual property should be protected by property law. Can theft of virtual property be punished as theft? At present, there are many kinds of currencies in the virtual market, such as Tencent Q currency, internet currency, Netease bubble currency, Sina u currency, Warcraft currency, Paradise currency, Shanda counting, etc. Take Q coin as an example, the number of users provided by Tencent is more than 200 million. Instry insiders estimate that the domestic Internet has a virtual money market scale of several billion yuan per year. Although the virtual currency market has a large scale, but the virtual currency stolen, "Filing" still has no legal basis? Virtual currency itself has no other transaction function, so it can be said that virtual currency is not a property right recognized by law. However, with the unlimited issuance of q-coin and the constant limited consumption of virtual procts, it will lead to the relative surplus of q-coin and the inflation of virtual world. At present, it is urgent to standardize the order of the virtual currency market, instead of blindly "Filing" protection, so that the public feel that the virtual currency is equivalent to RMB. When the network virtual property is stolen and cheated, we can also use the criminal law to punish criminals. At present, the court for the crime of network virtual property, some to be punished by theft, some to violate the freedom of communication to be punished. One of the reasons for different approaches is the lack of unified qualitative analysis of network virtual property. If we define the network virtual property as a kind of property, these problems can also be effectively solved. For example, some people steal virtual property or cheat for the purpose of illegal possession. If the amount of theft or fraud reaches the standard of "large amount", their behavior can be defined as theft or fraud. Of course, when the actor steals the network virtual property, his intrusion into the computer system and other means may also violate the crime of destroying the computer information system and other crimes. The combination of means and purpose constitutes an implicated crime, which can be dealt with again. What is q-coin Tencent q-coin is a virtual currency that can be paid uniformly on Tencent website. The face values of q-coin are 1 yuan, 2 yuan, 5 yuan, 10 yuan and 20 yuan respectively. For the q-coin obtained by users using the application method of dialing voice call, the expression form of 1 yuan face value q-coin is a 12 digit number string, and the expression form of 2 yuan, 5 yuan, 10 yuan and 20 yuan q-coin is a 14 digit number string starting with 2, 5, 1 and 8 respectively. The applied q-coin can purchase a series of related services on Tencent website, and input the corresponding q-coin amount according to the corresponding prompt when purchasing. At present, q-coin card can be used to apply for QQ bank number, purchase QQ beautiful number, QQ member service, QQ dating, QQ greeting card and other services. According to Tencent, a series of wonderful personalized value-added services will be launched later. Zhao Yiyong (judge of Zhengzhou high tech Instrial Development Zone, master of law): Disputes between players and thieves and between players and operators caused by the theft of virtual property. Once the virtual property is stolen, it is often difficult for users to find the thief, or it is difficult to provide evidence although they can find it. Therefore, once the virtual property is stolen, they often ask the operator for assistance and provide evidence, and most of them directly resort to the court on the ground that the operator does not fulfill its security obligations. From a technical point of view, game operators have the ability to help players save historical data and prevent data loss; From a legal point of view, game operators are also obliged to save historical data, prevent data loss and reproce game data e to charging players. Because the relationship between users and game operators is a service contract, according to the basic principles of China's "contract law", if the user's loss is caused by the game operators' failure to fulfill their ty of care, or major defects in program technology, then the game operators should bear the liability for breach of contract, including compensation for losses, restitution, and continued performance. If the game operator has no fault and the loss is caused by the infringement of a third party, it should directly claim to the infringer
legislation of virtual property protection suggests that in the absence of legislation on virtual property protection in China, network enterprises should apply the form of instry self-discipline to protect the interests of users. At the same time, we should speed up the formulation of relevant legislation or judicial interpretation. The specific measures include: (1) giving virtual property a legal status from the level of judicial interpretation 2 Add criminal legislation to protect computer data 3 Standardize the order of virtual property transactions, and ensure the security of virtual property transactions. It is suggested that the best way to deal with virtual property is through legal means