Hong Kong BitTorrent arrest
p2pnet.net News:- Hong Kong have made their first arrest of someone they claim used BitTorrent to share copyrighted files online.
An unidentified 38-year-old man is suspected of uploading ‘Daredevil,’ ‘Red Planet’ and ‘Miss Congeniality’ to a site, "from which others could obtain them,” news.com.au quotes Customs and Excise Department spokeswoman Agnes Law as saying.
The suspect hasn’t yet been charged and investigations are continuing, according to the story, which adds that illegally distributing copies of copyrighted material carries a maximum penalty of four years’ prison and a fine of $S6,400 ($5,125) for every illegal copy.
In Big Music parlance, ’suspected of’ is routinely spun as ‘guilty of’.
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uploading – HK makes first file swap arrest, news.com.au, January 14, 2005
January 14th, 2005 at 6:34 pm
Now that is scary: Communist China cracking down on movie sharing. What a team!!
MPAA and RIAA can do all their best to destroy rights in the USA, and now they partner with the biggest human rights offender left on the planet, Communist China!
Way to go Lenin! You got mail!
January 14th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
Yet another propaganda piece in which one person’s life and finances are rended a shambles in attempts to “scare” the public back into stores.
But i know the actual numbers. That guy might as well have been struck by lightning or involved in a plane crash. Theyll probably spin this news up one side of the ocean and down the other and still gain nothing.
January 15th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
THIS IS MERELY A PUBLICTY STUNT PRESSURED BY THE MPAA
I live in Hong Kong and here everyone knows that you can easily buy a pirated VCD/DVD/software in just about every street corner. So why are they not going after those guys but this unlucky chap who shares 3 movies, not to mention he is not making any profit at all?
Hong Kong authorities are not as communist as rest of China, since the area is a special district after 1997. The government are more favorable to capitalism.
It’s also interesting in one of the articles a HK investigator commented that they’re having a lot of problems tracking BT since a lot of seeders are located in mainland China. One would think they would be able to track easily since after all they are one nation, but that is not the case apparently.
January 16th, 2005 at 10:37 am
Um – this was in Hong Kong, not communist China, and while we are a part of china, we have a judicial system and a police force as good as if not better in the opinion of many than most countries in the west.
And Lenin was from Russia. Moron.