A Hong Kong man has become the first person to be found guilty of using
BitTorrent for piracy.
Chan Nai-ming, 38, used the popular P2P application to distribute three
films, Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality.
He was arrested in January and found guilty on three charges of copyright
infringement at Tuen Mun Magistrates' Court in a four-day trial. He will be
sentenced next week.
The arrest was made by the
Hong Kong Customs
Service, which said that it is pleased with the verdict and that use of the
software had dropped 80 per cent since the arrest.
In the US the FBI shut down
popular BitTorrent site Elite Torrents in May for alleged copyright
infringement. P2P users are increasingly moving to other
networks in light of the activity.
Nai-ming's conviction is indicative of China's increasingly tough line on
piracy. In July the country started to shut down websites
hosting MP3 music files, but piracy remains a huge
problem.
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