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First BitTorrent Arrest in Hong Kong
prostoalex writes "Associated Press says a 38-year-old was arrested in Hong Kong for uploading Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality via a BitTorrent client. Hong Kong laws provide for a maximum of 4 years in prison and $6,400 fine for every copy distributed without copyright owner's permission."
Not to mention pirated DVD's to include screeners for $1 a piece.
"How are they going to prove he "distributed" the movie if he is only serving chunks out piecemeal to various clients?"
Under U.S. copyright law, you don't have to actually prove that distribution occured -- it is generally sufficient to make a copyrighted work available for distribution. You don't have to prove that anyone downloaded the file -- simply making it available on Kazaa or whatever is sufficient. There's a case on this, Playboy v. Chuckleberry or Playbou v. Harbough, or one of the Playboy v. someone cases that raised this point.
"That's not even wrong..." -- Wolfgang Pauli
Can anyone explain to me why it's my right to violate copyright law while on the internet?
Pirated DVDs actually bring money into the local/Chinese economy and encourage trade. Online piracy doesn't, since no money changes hands. So from a Chinese perspective, this guy really was hurting the economy for much the same reasons as the *AA claims, just with the added irony of those reasons being themselves illegal in a much more conventional sense.
---If you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?
generally speaking the MPAA just logs onto a torrent, and keeps track of the ips, as such a encryption wouldn't help.
One of the many rules copyright law is that you do not have permission to redistribute any piece of any copyrighted work; this is why musicians must get permission before using a sample of someone else's work.
Therefore, distributing ANY small slice of the movie, no matter how small, is infringement.
Of course, this is somewhat silly, since the movie is in a digital format, and therefore distributing any number which appears in the digital stream is technically illegal.
I ain't evil, I'm just good looking.
Here we go:
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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005
Link as requested by sibling poster. I read this in the physical paper before the online edition was updated.
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
Tell it to these people. :)
That would not work with bittorrent.
Once you are associated with the tracker your IP address is visible to everyone in the swarm.
All the *IAA has to do is pretend to be a user, connect to your client, and decrypt data received from *YOUR* IP address and it's game over....
- PS. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R where eliminated.
Your link was broken..
/ 14/nation/9901032&sec=nation
Here is the link:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1
Nope.. sadly i'm not kidding.
/ 14/nation/9901032&sec=nation
Article here : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1
As for the marijuana, we only hang traffickers. IIRC the distiction between posession and trafficking is weight though IANAL, so i'm not too sure.
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
The article says he was shot in the BACK and it came out the chest, now that's fscked up.
Jose Padilla. US citizen. Born in Brooklyn. Detained in the US. No charge. No trial. Indefinite.
What fascinates me most is not that a govenment flouts their own constitution so blatantly - What's much more interesting is the state of denial so many of that country's citizens are in.