Hong Kong court convicts BitTorrent user

By 2005-10-26T00:00:00

A Hong Kong court has convicted a 38-year-old man for uploading films to theinternet using BitTorrent (BT) technology, in a case that is regarded locallyas the world's first criminal conviction of a BT user.

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