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Tech News Man who can't switch on computer faces illegal downloading suit By DPA Mar 19, 2006, 19:00 GMT Hong Kong - A single parent who claims he doesn't know how to switch on a computer is being sued by seven record companies for illegally uploading music on to the internet, a Hong Kong news report said Sunday. Yeung Chun-choi, who lives off welfare benefits, has been issued with a summons alleging that on numerous occasions before November 7 2005 he illegally uploaded, downloaded and stored copies of copyright music. But the 54-year-old widower and father-of-four says he doesn\'t know how to switch the computer on, let alone use it, according to a report in the Sunday Morning Post. He claims the computer was donated to his family by social services and was used by his youngest daughters aged 15 and 16 to do their homework. He believes the girls may be responsible as he often heard music coming from the computer. If the court says I've done something wrong, I've probably done something wrong. But I hope they will understand that I don't know what my children are doing on the computer,he told reporters. I don't know anything about computers. I don't even know how to switch it on. The writ was filed in the High Court Friday on behalf of Cinepoly, Emperor Entertainment; Go East Entertainment, Gold Label Entertainment, Sony BMG Music Entertainment; Universal Music and Warner Music Hong Kong. The companies are claiming unspecified damages alleging Leung infringed copyright by making recordings available to the public without the record companies consent using WinMX file-sharing software. The music is said to include songs by canto stars Joey Leung and Andy Lau. Yeung's case stems from an investigation last year which was part of a crackdown on internet piracy by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The action is the first of its kind in Hong Kong and follows the world's first criminal conviction for uploading movies in Hong Kong. In that case, a 38-year-old man was sentenced to three months in jail in November for uploading three Hollywood movies using BitTorrent software.
QuoteTech News Man who can't switch on computer faces illegal downloading suit By DPA Mar 19, 2006, 19:00 GMT Hong Kong - A single parent who claims he doesn't know how to switch on a computer is being sued by seven record companies for illegally uploading music on to the internet, a Hong Kong news report said Sunday. ***If the court says I've done something wrong, I've probably done something wrong. But I hope they will understand that I don't know what my children are doing on the computer, he told reporters.
Tech News Man who can't switch on computer faces illegal downloading suit By DPA Mar 19, 2006, 19:00 GMT Hong Kong - A single parent who claims he doesn't know how to switch on a computer is being sued by seven record companies for illegally uploading music on to the internet, a Hong Kong news report said Sunday. ***If the court says I've done something wrong, I've probably done something wrong. But I hope they will understand that I don't know what my children are doing on the computer, he told reporters.
Father deemed unfit and loses parental rights to his children because he allowed them to be exposed to internet dangers without adequate supervision.
That would depend on what KM was uploading Josh, downlading for your own personal use is legal in a suprisingly large amount of countries.
all i can say is lol, anyone else find it strange how many people they target that don't have a clue about computers? odd that they never seem to make a deal out of anyone who actually knows what a computer is to argue against them...?
Hong Kong record companies are dropping their first civil action against a man who illegally shared music files on the Internet after he expressed regret and agreed to pay compensation. Yeung Chun-choi, who said he was a computer novice and his daughters spent much of their time on the machine, had been served with a writ by seven record companies earlier this month alleging that he uploaded music onto the Internet, making it available for illegal sharing.However, following two rounds of negotiations with the senior management of the companies, Yeung vowed not to infringe copyright again and the companies would drop the case against him, the trade organization International Federation of Phonographic Industry said.Ricky Fung, chairman of IFPI Hong Kong, declined to disclose the amount of compensation the 54-year-old man paid."This will hopefully serve as an important message to other parents in Hong Kong to check what their children are using the family computer for," the IFPI said.
The important matter here is really that they admit to suing the wrong person.The trick of scaring the one they did sue into a legal gagging clause so that others would not hear how they had no proof the sued defendant was actually guilty of the crime alleged, is only to be expected from an international mafia of music shysters.
The law is clear in this country Gnarly (UK) the person responsible is not the subscriber but the one who perpetrated the act and proving that someone was at the keyboard is notoriously hard to do.Without his accepting liability this case would have failed as it was clear there was not one to answer for this man, its a well known policy of all the media mafia lawyers to discontinue rather than lose a case, I would rather this fellow had held firm in his conviction that he was not commiting any acts against criminal or civil law.The law applies in fine detail folks whether for alleged copyright infringement or murder, a case has to be constructed on facts, in this case the facts are admitted by the IFPI, this man was not at the keyboard during the alleged infringement, therefore he had no case to answer.
a settlement only occurs if nobody sues anybody, it is not possible to sue and settle at the same time!
