BitTorrent User Guilty Of Piracy

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BitTorrent User Guilty Of Piracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 25, 2005 @03:33AM from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

DIY News writes "A Hong Kong man has been convicted of movie internet piracy in what is believed to be the first case involving BitTorrent file-sharing software. The man was found guilty of copyright infringement for distributing three Hollywood blockbusters using BitTorrent."

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Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality ... by Average_Joe_Sixpack · 2005-10-25 03:35 · Score: 4, Funny

Were those films part of the evidence or his punishment?
1. Re:Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality ... by Alphabet+Pal · 2005-10-25 04:12 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Seems to me he was doing the RIAA a favor - at least a dozen would-be pirates must have logged on, seen these three movies and thought, "well, hell, this piracy thing may be free, but it's still overpriced. I'm going to blockbuster."
  
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2. Re:Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality ... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-25 04:13 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality. ..
  
  Hmm.. can it still be considered copyright infringment if no one downloads them?
3. Re:Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality ... by ripcrd · 2005-10-25 06:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I know it wasn't the greatest, but I actually enjoyed Daredevil.
  
  As for Red Planet...well, at least the robot was able to kill most of the cast. There were enough plot holes here to drive a truck thru. Of course they would travel millions of miles thru space and then run into a micro meteor shower right before entering orbit. Silly me, I thought it would take more than 5 minutes to attain orbit so you had time to go around and fix holes before everyone abandons ship. And of course, nematodes eat algae AND human flesh and spacesuits, then poop oxygen. And we must have a crew member that will run amok and push someone off a cliff and try to sabotage the mission for his own survival. Your average astronaut SHOULD be able to splice together a radio from a scrapped mars rover and make a fubar old Russian probe launch his sorry ass directly back into the cargobay of his passing ship, using only duct tape, a dead robot battery and a little unused rocket fuel poured from an ore container. MacGuyver, is that you?
  
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Selection... by thebdj · 2005-10-25 03:35 · Score: 2, Funny

He had been charged in April for uploading three Hollywood blockbusters to the net - Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality.

There is no accounting for taste...
If I am getting caught, it damned well better be for "Good" movies...

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Going to jail for DAREDEVIL??!?!?!? by pythas · 2005-10-25 03:36 · Score: 4, Funny

Out of all the movies to go to jail for, this guy picks Daredevil. Ugh.
1. Re:Going to jail for DAREDEVIL??!?!?!? by Pollardito · 2005-10-25 05:08 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  on the other hand, anyone who watched Daredevil probably felt that someone should have done some time for it
Circle the Wagons, Call Marshall Dillon by ackthpt · 2005-10-25 03:36 · Score: 2, Funny

We can't be havin' none a these varmints tarnishin' the good ol' name o' BitTorrent.
Next thin ya'll know, dang ol' house o' repersentatives an' courts an' lawyers be tarrin' it all up with the same brush used on Gnutella, Kazah and whatnot.
Dang. Put me right offen my coffee!

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in related news by Artie_Effim · 2005-10-25 03:36 · Score: 5, Funny

the torrent of his trial is available at http://www.chin.../ oh wait, nevermind ;)
Of all places by DaiPinchi · 2005-10-25 03:36 · Score: 2, Funny

In Hong Kong, of all places...
1. Re:Of all places by nutrock69 · 2005-10-25 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That's hilarious.
  
  The one city in the world where you can buy pirated DVD's on the street from the pirates themselves and they're cracking down on Bittorrent. I guess the p2p was infringing on their local economy... :)
No crime for good taste... by LV-427 · 2005-10-25 03:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality.
Piracy is the least of his problems...
I don't buy it! by spidergoat2 · 2005-10-25 03:42 · Score: 2, Funny

Piracy? In China? The Chinese government would never allow that to happen. Now that this guy has been caught, that will be the end of trademake infringement in China.
Re:Well, duh... by FidelCatsro · 2005-10-25 03:45 · Score: 5, Funny

My initial thoughts were "Prison ? he only uploaded the thing , he didn't produce it"

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Allow me to save y'all some typing by Mr.+Cancelled · 2005-10-25 03:46 · Score: 3, Funny
We've all seen enough of these types of stories here on /. to know what to expect in the discussion thread. Allow me to sum up about 75% of the inevitable replies:
- Good! Pirates deserve to be punished for stealing others works
- Pirating is copyright infringement - Not stealing
- I can't believe the hypocrisy of Slashdot readers who find it ok to steal music and movies, but who find infringements from the likes of Sco and Microsoft to be wrong
- It's people like this who are causing movie ticket prices to be so high
- If they'd make better movies, then more people would go to see them in the big theatre, and not prefer to watch them at home
- Why are people who commit copyright infringement given sentences equal to, or often more than those given to violent offenders? One's clearly a crime, while the others merely a misdemeanor
- Come on and get me MPAA/RIAA - I've got the guts to fight you! I'm going to keep sharing stuff just to piss you off. Muwahahahaha
And so on...
"Blockbusters?" by dtmancom · 2005-10-25 03:47 · Score: 2, Funny

If on some planet those movies are considered to be 'blockbusters,' then his main legal defense should be, "But this is Earth."
Re:Here we go again by Sockatume · 2005-10-25 03:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't forget the grammar pedants who waste everyone's time without contributing to the discussion. That's "cue", not "queue", BTW.

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Re:Didn't the guy ever leave his house?! by Scrameustache · 2005-10-25 03:57 · Score: 2, Funny

It's amazing to me that real piracy, where huge profits are made, is ignored while file sharing between friends is hammered.

They relate more to the capitalist pirates than to the hippie sharers. THESE guys must be stopped!

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Re:Didn't the guy ever leave his house?! by ohsoot · 2005-10-25 04:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Thus proving the point that nerds don't pirate movies to avoid paying, they do it to avoid leaving the house and having to interact with other humans.
Re:Good... by NeoSkandranon · 2005-10-25 04:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Better to sue him than to sue legit Bittorrent users.

All ten of you.

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Re:Fix the headline by Kenja · 2005-10-25 04:28 · Score: 3, Funny

So if he drank orange juice the headline "orange juice drinker guilty" would make sense to you?

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Re:Where'd they find the blockbuster? by filenabber · 2005-10-25 04:59 · Score: 2, Funny

And don't forget, the box-office smash "We Don't Need No Stinking Commas!"

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