BitTorrent Seeder Gets Three Month Sentence

Two weeks ago, Hong Kong resident Chan Nai-ming gained the distinction of being the first individual convicted for seeding three movies onto the Internet via BitTorrent. It was also the first time criminal charges, as opposed to civil charges, were brought up against an individual.

They state that this shouldn’t intimidate casual torrent users, because Chan was ‘more’ than your average user, except I completely fail to see how so. He created the torrent and uploaded it.. isn’t that what everyone else who publishes torrents do? So maybe people who originally provide the content could get charged, opposed to those who simply download and seed? Check out the full story at Slyck.