Piracy case: You are being sued for Piracy!

We all know that piracy is crime, here are some case of piracy.Helps us to identify the piracy case.

This would be the famous one and with huge amount of money.
 On March 18,2013, in Washington, DC. The US Supreme Court refused to take up the case of a woman ordered to pay a $220,000 fine for illegally downloading music off the internet. Thomas-Rasset, a mother of four from Minnesota, has been fighting a court battle since 2006 over violating intellectual property laws in her use of the file-sharing program Kazaa. Three trails and multiple appeals later, she has been ordered to pay amounts as high as $1.92 million- or $80,000 for each of 24 illegally downloaded tracks. After the third trial, at which the jury awarded the music companies @1.5million, the amount was reduced on appeal to $220,000.

This is one by the world's bigest media companies.
 The High Court has thrown out an appeal by some of the world's bigest media companies to stop internet piracy after it excused Australian service provider iiNet from policing unauthorized downloads. A group of 34 international and Australian companies, including industry heavyweights Warner Bros, Disney and the Seven Network, had alleged that iiNet had authorized the infringement of their copyright when its customers downloaded movies and television programs.

This one is about US internet piracy case brings New Zealand arrests.
 Associated Press= WELLINGTON,New Zealand --With 150 million registered users, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music superstars, Megaupload.com was among the world's biggest file-sharing sites. Big enough, according to a U.S. indictment, that it earned founder Kim Dotcom $42 million in 2011. The site was shut down in January 2012, Dotcom and three Megaupload employees were arrested in New Zealand on U.S accusations they they facilitated million of illegal downloads of films, music and other content, costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue.

From those, we're not hard to find out, the piracy case happens everywhere and everyday, We need to be careful to touch down the police ! On one would like to hear, " you are being sued for Piracy!"

Site Sources:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/computer/341272/us-top-court-rejects-appeal-in-220000-piracy-case
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1644007/High-Court-throws-out-internet-piracy-case
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10050328


by Wenyi Chen