Four executives of online video service Qvod who are on trial for spreading pornography for profits and who had pled not guilty in a previous trial, changed their pleas to guilty on Friday in a new open trial in Beijing.
Wang Xin, former CEO of Shenzhen-based Qvod Technology Co Ltd, and three other executives all admitted to spreading pornography on the Internet, Beijing's Haidian District People's Court heard.
The company was charged with spreading a large amount of pornography and pirated content on its popular video player since the end of 2012 and by doing so had also made huge profits through charging users and advertisers.
According to Haidian District People's Procuratorate, 21,251 of 29,841 files that police obtained from three servers used by Qvod were pornographic.
During the first trial on January 7-8, the defendants denied all the charges.
The Beijing court will announce its verdicts at a later date.
