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Hong Kong authorities have arrested a 38-year-old man who is accused of sharing copyrighted files over the Internet.
According to Associated Press reports, Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department arrested the unnamed man after an investigation into the file-sharing program BitTorrent. The reports said the suspect has not been charged and that the case is still being investigated.
Criminals found guilty of media piracy in Hong Kong can face up to four years in jail and a fine.
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SUPRNOVA.org do not and have never owned BitTorrent. It was written by someone else.
The sites that ran the trackers are not companies they provide a service and do not make money.
PLEASE get your facts right before you report on a story! From your story you appear to have NOT done any research and no nothing about the scene and what the system is. You appear to be jumping on the bandwagon and breaking a story before everyone else.
"The company behind BitTorrent, SuprNova.org, was recently attacked by Hollywood companies on a mission to shut down file-sharing companies."
Suprnova.org is not the company behind bittorrent, it was simply a website that hosted some bittorrent tracker files. The bittorrent format is developed by an external guy who has nothign to do with suprnova.
Bram Cohen is the guy behind Bittorrent - not Suprnova.org... I'd suggest a little bit of research is put into your articles before publishing them....
This story is total bull.
Bit torrent was developed by Bram Cohen (you can Google his personal website) NOT SuprNova. Bit Torrent is a distribution tool. It doesn’t even attempt to hide a users identity. This article is very irresponsible reporting. At least check Bram's or BitTorrent's website to understand the technology before you write this sort of crap.
"You have a great product, many customers, and are delivering your product to hordes of happy customers online. Serving large files creates problems of scaling, flash crowds, and reliability. As you grow, they become more central to your business, but your bandwidth costs go up as well. It's a vicious cycle.
There is a solution. BitTorrent is a simple software product which addresses all of these problems.
The key to cheap file distribution is to tap the unutilized upload capacity of your customers. It's free. Their contribution grows at the same rate as their demand, creating limitless scalability for a fixed cost."
First, Supnova and Bittorrent are not related any more than bugets and spreadsheets and Bill Gates. Bittorrent existed for two years prior to the arrival of Suprnova. If you are going to report, report the facts, not fiction,
compounding that Bittorrent is not illegal. The function is beautiful and evolutionary. There are still newer and faster things to come. The issue is do people want to be thieves, or do people want access. Maybe 12 dollars for a movie ticket, or 60 dollars for cable is more than they want to pay. Sell them what they want at a fair price.
that story is a load of crap. please get ur facts right before publishing shit.
Suprnova is NOT the company behind bittorrent, THERE IS NO company, bram cohen wrote the software and andrzej preston the 17 yr old slovenian set up a website that linked you to torrents all over the internet. he took it down for personal reasons, NOTHING TO DO WITH HOLLYWOOD, so get ur fucking facts straight before you start writing bollocks. the man in hong kong has NOTHING
NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING to do with suprnova
fucking retards
Get your facts straight! Good lord. Is can you not research?
Thanks to the readers who flagged up this error-- it's now been addressed.