In Hong Kong, the BBC reports, Chan Nai-ming has been sentenced to three months jail time after pirating and sharing three movies using BitTorrent.
Chan's nickname is apparently "Big Crook." He is possibly the first individual to get jail time for this kind of file-sharing activity.
Happily, the article does point out that BitTorrent has other uses besides digital piracy.
This is the companion Web site for "BitTorrent for Dummies," a book for regular folk who want to understand what BitTorrent is, how to use it for business and at home, how to download and play files of all types.
It also helps explain how to create audio and video, how to set up your computer to share a file using BitTorrent, and even how to search for interesting torrent files while steering clean of legal troubles. It's written by Susannah Gardner and Kris Krug.
