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Crackdown on BT Users in Hong Kong
griffinn writes "100 BitTorrent users in Hong Kong are about to receive legal threats from the MPIA (Hong Kong's equivalent of the MPAA), BusinessWeek reports. The users were randomly selected from more than 6000 IP addresses collected by investigators. Customs officials are also following through on their previous arrest of a 38-year-old man who allegedly uploaded three movies." From the article: "If convicted, the suspect faces up to four years in prison and a fine of 50,000 Hong Kong dollars ($6,400) for every illegal copy."
If you ask me, the other 5900 BitTorrent users should come forward and say "I'M SPARTACUS!"
I say, it's about time China recieved the same lack of freedoms that we have right here in the good old US of A.
Changa hates change.
...to something like Manslaughter or Murder 3.
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People are pirating entertainment in Southeast Asia?
Am I the only one who glanced at the headline and wondered why Hong Kong was cracking down on Blue Tooth users?
So sad, I wonder if there was another reason for arresting this man?
He should have done what everyone else does in China, just go to the local street market and buy the pirated copy.
They should also reduce the sentence due to the bad selection of movies he made (Daredevil, Red Planet, Miss Congeniality), he deserves no more than a slap on the wrist and good movie guide.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Neat.
Instead of lotteries being a tax on the numerically challenged funnelled through the state to gambling operations, they're now becoming a direct tax for the benefit of copyright holders.
You, too can become a winner!
I forget what 8 was for.