Hong Lei was arrested.
"Hong lei, he had an accident for several days. We haven't seen him again. " 19 at 22:50 pm, Hong Lei's father told Sina Technology on the phone, and his tone was anxious. "15 was taken away by the police at 1: 30 pm. We haven't met until now. I don't know what happened. "
Hong's father said, "Hong Lei's laptop was also taken away by the police, saying that he would check his information. It is the police sent by our local public security bureau in Suzhou. It seems to be the network supervision office. "
Hong's father's words confirmed a message circulating on the internet forum for several days. Earlier, some netizens reflected in the forum that "the stationmaster of Tomato Garden has been criminally detained by Suzhou huqiu district Police Station for allegedly using the Internet to infringe intellectual property rights for profit, and the principal and accessory have been arrested."
The rumor also said, "After the owner of the tomato garden was arrested, the police investigated that his account had more than 2 million yuan in deposits." This news has not been confirmed. Through search, it was found that the keyword "tomato garden was caught" had nearly 3000 pages, and within a few days, the news spread all over the internet circle.
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In order to beautify the tomato garden, Hong Lei, who has many screen names, made a modified version of the Windows XP operating system with another technology enthusiast named "Big Tomato", and they also operated and maintained a software download website called "Tomato Garden".
Sina Technology contacted Zheng Chaohui, a good friend of Hong Lei. Zheng Zhaohui's first World Wide Web mainly provided ISP/ ICP (Internet Information Center) services. When Hong Lei started, Zheng Zhaohui provided domain name and server hosting for Hong Lei. "At that time, he made a beautification package for Windows XP, which was to develop an independent software package that users needed to download and install. Later, he directly provided the tomato garden version of Windows XP for download. I think there may be infringement risk, so I will no longer provide him with server hosting. He moved the server to Chengdu, but the domain name was always.
On 16, Zheng found the tomato garden inaccessible. He called Hong Lei's cell phone and home phone, but he couldn't answer. Hong Lei, who often chats on the Internet, never showed his QQ avatar again, and the message he sent also sank into the sea. The rumor came immediately-Hong Lei had been arrested. Zheng considered that the ranking of Tomato Garden would drop if it could not be accessed in search engines for a long time, so at 13 18 pm, he turned his domain name into a simple page, which read "Tomato Garden Entertainment Network is being revised …". This once made many fans of tomato garden see hope.
/kloc-on the afternoon of 0/8, the line operator found Zheng Chaohui and told him that there was something wrong with the tomato garden, which was "related to copyright" and the police wanted its registration information. Zheng Chaohui's operation restored the original parsing state of the domain name, and the website returned to an inaccessible state.
"For so many years, I have witnessed the growth of Hong Lei. He is relatively calm and doesn't talk much, except professionally. He works hard and lives frugally. " Zheng recalled.