Hong Kong man jailed for movie sharing

[Becky]

The first person to be prosecuted for sharing films using peer-to-peer file-sharing technology has been sentenced. Chan Nai-ming, 38, was found guilty of copyright infringement last month, and the recent sentence has sent him to prison for three months.

Chan used the popular file-sharing program BitTorrent to upload three films - Miss Congeniality, Red Planet and Daredevil. It is notoriously difficult to track those who upload films using this program, since when a user downloads a film it comes in parts from multiple sources. This may be why many other users do not seem to be worried by Chan's sentencing.

As a consequence of these events, BitTorrent has closed several of it's sites.

Read more at BBC News and The Register

 

[Adywebb]

A couple of observations about this - firstly it was in a chinese court and I'm not sure the evidence would be there for a UK prosecution, and secondly why did he upload such awful films - should have got life.......

 

[kingnathski88]

Did he not get a fine like most people do in UK?


I guess he will only resume his movie uploading once he is released

 

[Becky]

Yup, he did get fined. That news report can be found here.

...and I quite agree with you about the choice of films

 

[kingnathski88]

Not much of a fine really, but i suppose it is to them,


I think this sort of thing will never be able to be controlled and stopped, as there are too many people and means of doing it

 

[CITech]

...and I quite agree with you about the choice of films

Shouldn't he have been charged with crimes against humanity?