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- SuperHiTMaN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was attempted to find an English news link when it was announced over the news late last night but to no available. I am currently living and working in H.K. so I would probably know it first hand.
Here is the process of how he got arrested:
1) the Custom's P2P special task force look around P2P website and newsgroups looking for torrent.
2) See only one guy with 100% seed
3) check his ip to see if originate from H.K.
4) download the movies to 100% and find some guy from the distribution company to LOOK to see if it's really copyright material( doh... I couldn't tell if it's porn or a movie that you guys got)
5) contact his ISP
6) apply for warrant
7) arrest the guy
all of these took place within 3 days!!!
The special tasks force also have to mention that this required a lot of help from different department and unlikely they could pull the same operation again due to the tracker have move into CHINA, CHINA.
Here is your 2 cents worth from the guy in the area. - tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love how everyone seems to be making this out as if the guy was charged with "using BitTorrent." He was busted for copyright infringement, the tool is largely irrelavent.
- TK99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's stupid is the massive illegal DVD press factories run unopposed in China, yet the MPA thinks Bit torrents are the real enemy?
- Madhattan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I lived with a Chinese family in Hong Kong for a month and went to a bootleg mall. Literally the entire mall was bootleg porn, xbox, ps2, DVD, vcd heaven. There was a police scare in the mall when I was there and we all bounced, but the mall was re-opened hours later. This mall is right in the middle of Mong Kok which is a huge shopping/ tourist area. If they let places like this stay open, why the hell would they mess with this dude? My guess is that the cops probably get a little kick-back from the bootleggers.
- carnage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you know what this post did for me? remineded me to check on my torrents.
Thanks Digg! - JackDoyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Give it a break, you can be convicted for searching Google in Hong Kong.
- conedude13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here is a link to some more stories on the same person: http://news.google.com/news?q=BitTorrent+conviction&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr
He was actually arrested back in January. - Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I abandoned bittorrent long ago for getting movies. I prefer a sneakernet based network that delivers 40GB in about 3 days. It's called netflix and I'm pretty happy with it :P
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hong Kong, huh? Shocking.
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm cool with this if he was busted for leeching.
- tehLazyPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"We need some more information about this conviction. How was he able to be tracked, etc."
... its china... the government likes to regulate lots of things over there - Fieri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL in Hong Kong yeah...
- conedude13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He was busted for posting the movies on the internet for others to download via BitTorrent software. One article said that posting drooped 80% after his conviction.
- partsguy74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+01 hour too late.. Damn..
We need some more information about this conviction. How was he able to be tracked, etc. - dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 I'm surprised the Chinese government didn't execute him, they seem to like executing people.
- bossm4n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Big Crook", nice screen name dumbass. Might as well have gone with, "I'm Guilty".
- SuperHiTMaN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just to clarify the guy actually bought the movie and upload and seed for others. BTW, execution is outlaw in H.K. a LONG time ago. It only applies in China for serious crimes such as rape, murder, drug trafficing...etc. However, you would rather ask them to just shoot you now than went to the Mainland China's prison.
The health condition are horrible...if you watch that Richard Gere(?) movie about how he got arrested in China....10 odd yrs ago...I think.
BTW, u could go to this site when In China (I know because I have to travel to work there occassionally) because a) not that many people know English b)or this site.. - nilclop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"From there, the police raided the domicile of Big Crook, where three films were found on Mr. Nai-ming's computer: Daredevil, Red Planet, and Miss Congeniality."
HAHA! Even Hong Kong won't be able to dish out a punishment fitting enough for sharing this crap. - billizm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ouch, a 4 year sentence for seeding 3 lame movies.
- theprofessor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"in communist china, BITTORENT convicts YOU!"
- Voide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, OUCH...
...4 years for 3 movies. The "Thermite" episode of 'The Broken' isn't sounding so unreasonable anymore. :-P
But seriously, 4 years for 3 movies is hardly fair - bill.clark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0China prosecuting for copyright infringement? When the hell did China start caring copyright law?
- strikezero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0looks both ways, then procedes to download
- c0dek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Crap - and I was gonna call in sick to work next week and spend a couple days infringing copyright in Asia. Thanks a lot Big Crook - way to ruin my vacation!
- takai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have a friend that had his ISP shut off because the MPAA seeded him a fake movie. I would be highly surprised if this was the first conviction for BitTorrent.
- Drood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How many more BT articles are there going to be on Digg with the phrase "Watch out" somewhere in them? Place your bets now.
- iskatebad914, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0its not the us....
- smablue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This conviction is more important then many people think. it this was a crime in the US, a large amount of the population would be in jail. As to how they were able to find out it was him it was most likely done through non-digital means.
- petecapp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dupe!!!
- AuAndCs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0those movies suck.
- Bleek-II, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DUP!!!!!!
http://digg.com/links/Hong_Kong_man_convicted_of_trying_to_share_movies_with_BitTorrent - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Piracy is stealing. Stealing is illegal, and more importantly, it is immoral. I hope more and more are arrested and charged with this crime.
- VaDor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"What the article didn't say was he was a leecher and not a seeder. He should be executed for that. Lamer."
The Wikepedia says:
"BitTorrent gives the best download performance to the people who upload the most, a property known as "leech resistance", since it discourages "leeches" from trying to download the file without uploading it to anyone. (Although, confusingly, when used in opposition to "seeds" or "seeders" as in "S/L ratio" (meaning "seed/leech ratio"), "leecher" only means someone who hasn't downloaded the full file yet.)"
He was doing leech resistance. Leechers we all are when we are downloading some new files... - iTimmymobile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmmm, the day that a Bittorrent conviction happens on Swedish soil (no Im not swedish) then the world will end. From my knowlege Asia does not have massive Bittorrent legal support groups which is very unfortunate.
I feel sorry for this guy, genuinely, and yes, he should have chosen better movies. - bryan8m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BitTorrent. Use Protection.
- Lobster_Johnson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wasnt this ages ago... i thought i saw this in the new in hk like a year ago.... i think he was uploading his vcds
- raada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You got it all wrong. He was convicted for sharing too crappy movies.
They convicted a DirectConnect guy in Sweden a month ago (who obviously had a really bad lawyer). He admitted he had shared one crappy Swedish movie called "Hip Hip Whore" (no joke) and got a penalty equal to "people trafficking" and "serious drug trafficking". One level worse than manslaughter... Crazy! And the worst of all was that the proof was a screen dump (!) where his IP address was shown sharing a file with that name...
This happened at the same time as the record industry and DVD industry have increased their sales each year while the file sharing has existed. The math does not sum up.
Filesharing is actually good for the record and film industry. You discover movies and music that you would never have found, if you just listened to the records in the record store. The only people who should be scared is people who make crap that noone wants to buy.
You can fight evolution, but then you end up living in cave with no electricity.
I have stopped buying any more CDs or movies after this lawsuit crazyness. And I have over 300 CDs and about 200 DVDs that I have bought up til today... Movie/music industry can burn in hell. - Tsuroerusu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0One down, millions to go!
- G-RaZoR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What the article didn't say was he was a leecher and not a seeder. He should be executed for that. Lamer.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0LOL, even the chinese government hate Bittorent.
- Califax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Everyone who uses bitorret is a leecher (don't contribute anything), all users do is offer bandwith, and many barely do that
- Califax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0One more bitTorrent lamer down?
- CptnObvious, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0They'll never catch me! NEVER!!!
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