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[Digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com] Bit Torrent User Arrested in Hong Kong - The Digital Music Weblog: Details are sparse, but a man in Hong Kong was apparently arrested for trading in unauthorized content via Bit Torrent. Reports do not disclose whether he seeded the network with an unauthorized Torrent file, or simply downloaded a file, or was more extensively involved in distributing files.

 [Moskalyuk.com] BitTorrent clients - Alex Moskalyuk Blog: Associated Press says a 38-year-old was arrested in Hong Kong for uploading Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality via a BitTorrent client. Hong Kong laws provide for a maximum of 4 years in prison and $6,400 fine for every copy distributed without copyright owner’s permission.

[Blogs.law.harvard.edu] Digital Media in Asia Blog » Hong Kong Man Sentenced to Three ...: Hong Kong Man Sentenced to Three Months Jail Time for Bittorrent Use .Customs officials claim that bittorrent use in Hong Kong has dropped by 80 percent .

[Asiamedia.ucla.edu] AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: BitTorrent ruling puts downloaders at risk ...: But Kevin Pun Kwok-hung, associate professor of computer science and law at the University of Hong Kong, pointed out that BT technology works with the downloaders also automatically becoming uploaders, and questioned the wisdom of launching criminal prosecutions against users of such technology instead of leaving it to businesses to take civil action. "If you say by placing something on the internet, you are committing a crime, you are saying all BT downloaders are criminals because their computers are downloading and uploading," he said.

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