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Finnish BitTorrent Network Operators Convicted on Copyright Charges

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 27, 2006 - 3:19pm.
Helsinki - A court in Finland has convicted 21 operators of a BitTorrent network on copyright-related charges, and ordered them to pay damages and expenses of over $721,000 to rights holders.

The court rejected the argument from the operators of Finreactor, who claimed they were not liable as media was exchanged directly between users, ruling instead that defendants willfully encouraged copyright infringement, requiring its 10,000 users to maintain a minimum ratio of uploaded to downloaded content to maintain their accounts.

During three months in late 2004, Finreactor users downloaded nearly 16,000 games, 136,000 movies and 274,000 music albums on the network.

Related Links:
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20061027a.html
http://www.bittorrent.com
http://www.finreactor.com

Published in BPOCanada, November 2006, Volume 1, No. 1
tags: Games | Video | Law | Tech | P2P | Piracy | Music | Europe | Copyright | BitTorrent | Convictions | Finland |



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