Jailed BT user appeals
p2pnet.net news:- Hong-Kong BitTorrent user Chan Nai-ming, aka Big Crook, convicted of uploading movies, has already served 21 days of his three-month jail sentence, and he now wants the conviction quashed.
“Chan’s counsel Kevin Pun Kwok- hung argued that his client was not charged under the distribution of electronic data in Hong Kong,” says the Hong-Kong Standard.
“He said the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act in England, which differentiates distribution rights in material copy and communication rights, such as broadcasting intellectual material, has yet to be adopted in Hong Kong.
“The section of the ordinance under which Chan was charged requires the distribution of a physical copy, argued Pun, a Hong Kong University professor who specializes in information technology law and intellectual property.”
Do electronic signals constitute electronic copies, court of final appeal justice Robert Ribeiro asked Pun who, says the story, replied that downloaders made the decision to get the data from Chan’s disk, not his client.
The court reserve judgment after a three-hour hearing, and Chan’s bail has been extended pending a final decision, adds the Standard.
Also See:
uploading movies – Man jailed for file sharing, November 7, 2005
Standard - ‘Big Crook’ adopts civil approach in Net appeal, May 10, 2007
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May 10th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Jail time for uploading movies. Rediculous is this not?
He sent repeating patterns of of 1/0’s using electrical signals. And this is likened to murder, drug dealing and so forth… What a crock of shit.
This world has gone to hell. Men in suits on a power trip.