World’s first BitTorrent pirate jailed after appeal fails
Saturday, May 19th, 2007HONG KONG - The world’s first person to be convicted of illegally pirating movies onto the internet using BitTorrent technology has been jailed for three months after losing his appeal in Hong Kong Friday.
Chan Nai-ming, 39, was found guilty of distributing three Hollywood films using the peer-to-peer file sharing program in 2005. Chan served 24 days of the sentence before he was freed pending appeal, but in an unanimous verdict five appeal court judges dismissed his appeal.
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