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gerry sat

Heavy sentence for French pirate


Judge's Gavel on red backgroundA court in La Rochelle has sentenced a man aged 28 to six months suspended sentence and ordered him to pay more than two million euros in damages to US studios.

The man, an inhabitant of Rochefort (Charente-Maritime) was prosecuted for “making software publicly available for watching protected works.”

The investigation showed that between January 1 2012 and April 15, 2014, nearly three million downloads were made. Some 242,279 films, 240 concerts and 2,240 music albums had been made available illegally.

The creator of the site earned revenues through advertising on the site and user donations. The site was hosted in Hungary and the Czech Republic.

The man in question left France and started to live in Budapest in 2013, when the case was brought to light by SFre inch authors rights organisation ACEM in August 2013. He contacted investigators July 18, 2014 indicating that he had no intention of returning to France to be heard.

The Rochelle court ordered him to pay EUR158,130 to Columbia Pictures, EUR242,735 to Disney, EUR221,575 TO Paramount Pictures, EUR11.010 TO Tristar Pictures, EUR228,785 TO 20th Century Fox, EUR172,560 TO Universal and EUR470,205 to Warner Bros.

Other plaintiffs in this lawsuit include SACEM, who will receive EUR564,762, Syndicat de l’Edition vidéo-numérique (EUR5,000) and la Fédération nationale des distributeurs de films (also EUR5,000).

Johnboy1951

Found a link to the report

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2015/02/23/heavy-sentence-for-french-pirate/

Johnboy1951

I meant to ask ...... does anyone have further knowledge on this?

I wonder what 'software' was involved .....

EDIT
http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-admin-can-pay-piracy-fine-in-227-years-150223/

gerry sat

The sooner the better, this card sharing / IP systems are closed down. (S$Y)
It's causing good Installers there lively hood, due to rogue installers installing these systems.

But most of the time the customer is not told, it could be gone tomorrow, after paying a few hundred quid, and who loses the customer, and the mobile number of the satman is switched of or has changed trade, gone back to his full time job.

Johnboy1951

gerry sat wrote: »

The sooner the better, this card sharing / IP systems are closed down. (S$Y)
It's causing good Installers there lively hood, due to rogue installers installing these systems.

But most of the time the customer is not told, it could be gone tomorrow, after paying a few hundred quid, and who loses the customer, and the mobile number of the satman is switched of or has changed trade, gone back to his full time job.

This, according to the link I posted, seems to refer to a tracker site and nothing at all to do with Satellite or card sharing or 'Installers' of Satellite equipment.

gerry sat

Yes, I agree, but at the end of the day still Card Sharing IP boxes are been used for watching films etc, which the satellite providers/cable providers have to pay for.

It's all the same Pirates ripping of film companies.

What if all film companies closed down due to pirates doing streaming films etc, then we would be all *****.

Johnboy1951

gerry sat wrote: »

Yes, I agree, but at the end of the day still Card Sharing IP boxes are been used for watching films etc, which the satellite providers/cable providers have to pay for.

It's all the same Pirates ripping of film companies.

What if all film companies closed down due to pirates doing streaming films etc, then we would be all *****.

We might all be better off ......

radiowaves

gerry sat wrote: »

Heavy sentence for French pirate


Judge's Gavel on red backgroundA court in La Rochelle has sentenced a man aged 28 to six months suspended sentence and ordered him to pay more than two million euros in damages to US studios.

The man, an inhabitant of Rochefort (Charente-Maritime) was prosecuted for “making software publicly available for watching protected works.”

The investigation showed that between January 1 2012 and April 15, 2014, nearly three million downloads were made. Some 242,279 films, 240 concerts and 2,240 music albums had been made available illegally.

The creator of the site earned revenues through advertising on the site and user donations. The site was hosted in Hungary and the Czech Republic.

The man in question left France and started to live in Budapest in 2013, when the case was brought to light by SFre inch authors rights organisation ACEM in August 2013. He contacted investigators July 18, 2014 indicating that he had no intention of returning to France to be heard.

The Rochelle court ordered him to pay EUR158,130 to Columbia Pictures, EUR242,735 to Disney, EUR221,575 TO Paramount Pictures, EUR11.010 TO Tristar Pictures, EUR228,785 TO 20th Century Fox, EUR172,560 TO Universal and EUR470,205 to Warner Bros.

Other plaintiffs in this lawsuit include SACEM, who will receive EUR564,762, Syndicat de l’Edition vidéo-numérique (EUR5,000) and la Fédération nationale des distributeurs de films (also EUR5,000).

Thanls for the post but this report has absolutely nothing to do with satellite (or broadcast TV in general)

irishgeo

i heard about a branded hardware selling these receivers a while back. With the illegal setup included.

Johnboy1951

irishgeo wrote: »

i heard about a branded hardware selling these receivers a while back. With the illegal setup included.

What receivers?

This thread is apparently about a torrent site .......

St Senan

gerry sat wrote: »

The sooner the better, this card sharing / IP systems are closed down. (S$Y)
It's causing good Installers there lively hood, due to rogue installers installing these systems.

But most of the time the customer is not told, it could be gone tomorrow, after paying a few hundred quid, and who loses the customer, and the mobile number of the satman is switched of or has changed trade, gone back to his full time job.

The rigging business is destroyed. And the sooner Sky pulls the plug on IP/Cardsharing the better.

The legit installer hadn't a hope when saorview started.
And now the guys flogging these dodgy boxes have completely destroyed the business. Down this way there are a few ex builders who are bluffing everyone and who have ruined the TV business for years to come. They will be gone on to something different when all this Cardsharing stops.

Johnboy1951

What the heck is going on in this thread?

There appears to be two different subjects mixed up.

The original post was about a French man who was done in a French court for running a 'torrent site' ........... that is a site displaying torrent links to media stored elsewhere.


For some reason I cannot fathom some people are posting about Satellite installations, card sharing, rigging and receivers etc ......

After being chased down by a coalition of mainstream entertainment companies, a French court has just handed a former torrent site operator a six month suspended sentence.

http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-admin-can-pay-piracy-fine-in-227-years-150223/

jmcc

Navarre wrote: »

The rigging business is destroyed. And the sooner Sky pulls the plug on IP/Cardsharing the better.

It is not like this is a recent thing. Sky has known about this problem for over 24 years. But this is a Torrent issue. Due to the nature of the relatively small groups (compared to the full set of Sky subscribers) using that approach, it is not exactly hitting Sky's bottom line. When it does, Sky will act. There is almost an "acceptable" level of piracy on any Pay TV service and the operators don't generally move until it is exceeded. It would be interesting to see some Saorview/Freesat statistics. I think that this, more than Cardsharing is the real reason for a decline in Sky installations as it is economically cheaper, for the user, to have that kind of setup rather than a Sky subscription setup. With broadband quality increasing, services like Netflix are becoming somewhat of a competitor to Sky (which is why Sky introduced its own version). A possible alternative package that might help retake some of the market would be based on Saorview, Freeview and Netflix. It might even include a PC or tablet with Chromecast and a broadband deal (if the user doesn't have broadband). But then if they are looking for satellite in a rural area, the broadband quality might not be great.

Regards...jmcc

irishgeo

Why is the op posting about a torrent site in this forum.

icdg

Yeah look, I'm not sure this has anything to do with satellite television at all and while I'm open to discussions on piracy as an issue (as opposed to how to go about doing it) I'm just not sure this thread is appropriate and discussions like this are too open to falling down the wrong road