CRIMINAL INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT: THE BIG CROOK CASE
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Gething, StevenAbstract
On 24th October 2005 an unemployed man from Hong Kong, Chan Nai Ming aka “Big Crook”, received the dubious honour of becoming the first person in the world to be sentenced to a custodial sentence for using the Bit Torrent protocol to infringe copyright. 1 This chapter explores the definitions of “affect prejudicially” and “distribution” in the context of criminal law; issues which emerged from the case.On 24th October 2005 an unemployed man from Hong Kong, Chan Nai Ming aka “Big Crook”, received the dubious honour of becoming the first person in the world to be sentenced to a custodial sentence for using the Bit Torrent protocol to infringe copyright. 1 This chapter explores the definitions of “affect prejudicially” and “distribution” in the context of criminal law; issues which emerged from the case.
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Date
2008-01-01Publisher
Sydney University PressLicence
Copyright Sydney University PressCitation
Copyright law, digital content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific.Share