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Jail Time in Hong Kong for Allowing Movie Downloading

by David Olson, posted on November 8, 2005 - 2:12am

I understand Hollywood's concern over lost revenue from file-sharing of movies. But this seems perhaps a bit draconian?

The New York Times reports that "[a] Hong Kong judge sentenced a 38-year-old unemployed man to three months in jail Monday for using an Internet file-sharing system to make three Hollywood movies available for others to download free."

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