BitTorrent User Guilty Of Piracy

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."

Comments

Next Gen p2p

[VAXGeek]

All actions like these do is force development of next gen p2p like Mute Filesharing.

http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/

More reports on this

[cciRRus]

Here, here and here.

I wish people would stop using this analogy

[Anonymous Coward]

"Why don't you go out this monday night and grab a bunch of kids trick or treat bags... its all stealing, either way you look at it!"

How many times must this get corrected on /. before people stop using this false analogy? If you take a kid's candy, you have the candy and he does not. On the other hand, if you share a movie over the Net, you still have the movie, and so does the other guy. This is not stealing, it's copyright infringement.

strange fixation on transfer protocol name

[Ahaldra]

I cannot remember any slashdot article reading "HTTP user guilty of piracy" - What is it with BitTorrent that people are so hung up on the name of the transfer protocol?
Just because it's fast doesn't make it illegal! Every time a dumb headline like this is posted the tech crowd shoots itself in the foot - It's like saying "Porsche driver guilty of manslaughter", these two things may have something to do with each other, but expressing it this way makes it appear as if they are causally related - which they are not.
It's not that this specific transfer protocol enables copyright infringement right out of the box or anything....