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Movie pirate loses appeal, begins jail term

13. December 2006, 15:07 Uhradmin

The world’s first convicted internet movie pirate has started a three-month jail sentence in Hong Kong after his appeal against the conviction was rejected, a media report said Wednesday.

Chan Nai-ming, 38, also known by his internet alias, ‘Big Crook,’ had been on bail since being found guilty last November, the Standard reported.

He was convicted for attempting to distribute three Hollywood movies - Daredevil, Miss Congeniality and Red Planet - using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing technology. Chan created and activated files for the movies that enabled other BitTorrent users to download the movies on January 10 and 11, 2005.

Chan’s counsel, Kevin Pun, told the Hong Kong’s appeal court that allowing the films to be available on the internet was not the same as distributing copies of the films. Pun said this was done by other internet users when they downloaded the films.

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.