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Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Information About Popcorn Time Service (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tough-luck dept.

A man from Denmark has been handed a six-month conditional prison sentence for spreading information about Popcorn Time, an authorized on-demand movies and TV shows streaming service, news outlet TorrentFreak reports. From the report: In what is being described as a first for Europe, the man was convicted after telling people how to download, install and use the movie streaming service. He was also ordered to forfeit $83,300 in ad revenue and complete 120 hours community service.

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  1. Something lost in translation by sgage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I read the article, and as near as I can figure, he was busted for posting instructions on how to download, install, and use software for pirating content from PopcornTime.

    From the /. excerpt, it sounds like all he was doing was helping people to legally use the service. Highly misleading.

    And what a crappy headline... I have pretty low expectations for accuracy in /. postings, but this is one of the more egregious cases of crap editing, or something. Unless it was intentionally misleading.

  2. ...from an "authorized" site? by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Currently, the summary reads:

    A man from Denmark has been handed a six-month conditional prison sentence for spreading information about Popcorn Time, an authorized on-demand movies and TV shows streaming service.

    So either the summary is wrong and the site was illegal (which is what I suspect) or someone needs to explain why making money pointing people to a legal streaming site is illegal.