Yesterday, Hong Kong Customs take action to arrest an unemployed 38 year-old man for illegally upload 3 movies via BT. This is the first case in the whole world for a person to be arrested because of BT upload. Will he be successfully accused?
Some said that accusation will not be successful if appellee refuse to admit that he is the only user of that computer. This is shown in a previous case in Hong Kong that a man was arrested because of holding over 100 child pronographic photos in his computer. The man was released at a latter stage as appellor cannot provide sufficient evidence to provide that the appellee is the only user of the computer.
At the same time, some people suggest BT user to use special software to protect them from being traced through their IP address. The software change the IP address of the computer every second. Whether the software works or not? I really don't know (but I don't think that software works with BT concept).
So, will this the end of BT? Will this be the end of illegal network traffic? Will there be any other new software to do the same thing? Technology is going very fast (this is very sure). It's really difficult to exactly answer the above 3 questions. Then how can the Government and copyright holders really solve the copyright infringing problem? Probably, the oldest answer, education, is the only answer.
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