A Hong Kong court set a precedent Monday by convicting a BitTorrent file-sharing software user of copyright infringement. Chan Nai-ming was convicted on three charges of copyright infringement for using BT to share three movies with dozens of users on the Internet. Magistrate Colin Mackintosh said in his judgment that Chan had the intention to distribute the files, and that even though he did not profit from the sharing, his act violated copyrights and caused financial loss to the movies' owners.
October 25, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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A Hong Kong court set a precedent Monday by convicting a BitTorrent file-sharing software user of copyright infringement.
Chan Nai-ming, 38, was convicted on three charges of copyright infringement at the Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Court for using BT to share three movies with dozens of users on the Internet.
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