First BitTorrent Arrest in Hong Kong 454
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."
Re:Hong Kong /= Copyright Enforcement (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Is proof even necessary? (Score:4, Informative)
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.
My rights online? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I thought China was in charge of Hong Kong Now (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Why not encrypt these downloads? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Is proof even necessary? (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Re:Thats Nothing. (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Don't call it a "BitTorrent Arrest" (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Why not encrypt these downloads? (Score:3, Informative)
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....
Re:Thats Nothing. (Score:3, Informative)
Here is the link:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1
Re:Thats Nothing. (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:Thats Nothing. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:I'm sure the **AA will LOVE this to become US l (Score:3, Informative)
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.