Hong Kong BitTorrent User Convicted of Copyright Infringement

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 25, 2005 - 7:03am.

Hong Kong - In the world's first copyright infringement case involving the BitTorrenet peer-to-peer file-sharing network, a Hong Kong man has been convicted of copyright infringement for uploading several movies to the Internet, according to a report in The China Post. Thirty-eight year-old Chan Nai-Ming was arrested in January on charges he offered films including "Daredevil," Miss Congeniality" and "Red Planet" on BitTorrent. Chan pleaded not guilty, but was convicted on Monday after a four-day trial; he will be sentenced on Nov. 7. A customs spokesman told The China Post that the department was "delighted" with the outcome, and that it has seen a "sharp fall" in the use of BitTorrent to upload movies since the case.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/detail.asp?ID=70830&GRP=E
http://tinyurl.com/bxuss (CNET)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/25/bittorrent_man_convicted
http://www.bittorrent.com