More piracy nonsense, and a man in Hong Kong has been jailed for sharing movie files on the net. He is probably the first person to go to jail for passing copyrighted files via P2P - in this case using the BitTorrent network popular for both music and movie file sharing. The Hong Kong film industry, increasingly paranoid that it will soon be hit by illegal file sharing on the same level as that suffered by the music industry, said that it hoped the sentence handed down to Chan Nai-ming will provide a deterrent to others. It would certainly make me think twice about sharing copyrighted content online. Well, if I lived in Hong Kong it might.
Nov 7, 2005
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Hong Kong courts jail movie file-sharer
A man in Hong Kong has been jailed for sharing copyrighted movie files over the BitTorrent network, probably the first such jail sentence for P2P sharing there.