China nails file sharer, 16
p2p news / p2pnet: Continuing its hand-in-glove cooperation with the US entertainment cartels, the Hong Kong Customs Anti-Internet Piracy Team has nailed 16-year-old student Sau Mau Ping for providing “free downloading,” says the China state news agency, Xinhua.
Hong Kong Customs “cracked” the case which involved more than 600 songs worth, “7,700 HK dollars (987 U.S. dollars)”.
Xinhua doesn’t explain how the value was arrived at.
“According to a government press release on Thursday, acting on a complaint from a copyright owner, following intensive investigations, Customs officers seized from a residential unit in Sau Mau Ping a desktop computer with broadband Internet devices,” says the story
“The student is now on bail pending further investigation.”
The PC was turned into a server, “by means of a ‘Dynamic IP Re-direction Service’ provided by a U.S. website,” charges Xinhua.
Also See:
Xinhua – Student in HK caught for sharing pirated songs on-line, May 11, 2006
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