Two years after the popular private tracker Swebits closed down, one of its uploaders has received a suspended jail sentence, 160 hours community service and a massive $652,000 damages award.
The uploader shared over 500 movies, but the fine was just for one film: a pre-release CAM version of "Beck ? Levande Begravd."
Anti-piracy group Antipiratbyran brought the case, and the rightsholders ... [ read the full article ]
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OK, so let me get this straight... If someone were to pay ~700k they could broadcast a movie to anyone and everyone free of charge?
As for the quality of the download hurting the sales of the actual film... that's some backwards ass logic there. If anything a poor quality movie would force people to go find a decent version which the retail should be the best available. Are they saying their own quality of the actual movie was so poor people wouldn't do this?
As a side not. I thought Beck was cool with this whole pirating thing, it's how most of his remixes became popular as he would not be as famous without them. Scratch that this isn't about Beck the artist it's about a French crime detective tv show....
