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25 Oct 2005
A Hong Kong man has become the first person to be found guilty of using BitTorrent for piracy.
Chan Nai-ming, 38, used the popular P2P application to distribute three films, Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality.
He was arrested in January and found guilty on three charges of copyright infringement at Tuen Mun Magistrates' Court in a four-day trial. He will be sentenced next week.
The arrest was made by the Hong Kong Customs Service, which said that it is pleased with the verdict and that use of the software had dropped 80 per cent since the arrest.
In the US the FBI shut down popular BitTorrent site Elite Torrents in May for alleged copyright infringement. P2P users are increasingly moving to other networks in light of the activity.
Nai-ming's conviction is indicative of China's increasingly tough line on piracy. In July the country started to shut down websites hosting MP3 music files, but piracy remains a huge problem.
Industry pressure group the Business Software Alliance estimated recently that 90 per cent of Chinese computers use pirated software.
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idea?
the way to lower down piracy case is to lower down the price of original CDs example: $100 = original $10 = piracy... which one your will choose?
Posted by: Jed 10 Nov 2005
ex-bit torrent user
P2P sites might come down and new one's might come up...but, I certainly don't want to be the poster boy. Consequentially the reason why I no longer run P2P software
Posted by: TheMan 26 Oct 2005
p2p and FBI
The us government should be focusing on other things like poverty, jobs, and hurricane victims. Not p2p networks and copyright infringement,the FBI should focus on serial killers, rapists, and real crimes not shutting down p2p sites. The FBI is a pieceof sh**. This shows that the us government cares more about money in the entertainment business and their wasting the FBI resources on stupid things when theres real crime. The record and video is a piece of sh** and so is the FBI. Its real stuff going on in america. think about it BUSH.
Posted by: willy johnson 26 Oct 2005
Is this the death knell for Bit Torrent?
I think so. With eDonkey on the way out as well, I think P2P is almost dead.
Posted by: Grim Reaper 25 Oct 2005
what a shame
they can keep on wasting money, but they will never stop p2p. they kill one thing something else comes over.
Posted by: iqmeister 25 Oct 2005
P2P won't die
Like evil it has many forms & shapes. It won't easily die down. P2P is what we all do over the Internet and in various forms. What has to stop is PIRACY. Companies have the capabilities to stop this & I think they should, not by arresting it's users but by hackproofing their products. Stop it at the source.
Posted by: John Gil Bryan Q. Agonillo 25 Oct 2005