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The First man to be convicted of distributing movies illegally over the Internet using BT, has appeared in Hong Kong’s high court on last Wednesday to Appeal the verdict. Chan Nai-ming was sentenced to three months Jail in 2005 for uploading 3 Hollywood films using P2P software. It was the “Distributing” action that got him the Jail sentence.  The Hong Kong court warned world Netizens that unauthorized P2P file-sharing at Home (even not for profits) is just as severe a crime here as any other form of Piracy.

Arguments to the final Appeal

Chan’s lawyer defense based on these arguments:

1. Chan has only uploaded the movies without distributing them.
2. If there was any act of distribution, it was done on the part of the downloaders who initiated the distribution process.

Should we sacrifice Privacy for Piracy monitoring?

1. Piracy is Illegal and definitely should be warned, but this court case brings out another Personal Privacy conflicts.
2. How do we ensure the “IP tracing of illegal P2P activities” is Legal itself?
3. The major worry is that if the monitoring and IP tracing of P2P activities is itself not under careful Government Control and legisation, it might probably result in the abuse to Trace and Monitor all Internet activities for other commercial or illegal purpose.
4. So the question is “should any of our internet activities deserve to be Naked” in the Surveillance’s Eye?

How to protect your own internet privacy?

1. Might consider using various paid Privacy SSH Tunnel services to surf anoymously.
2. Might use Proxy Server.
3. Afterall, if the Governor feels monitoring is a must; the public internet user should be educated that all their internet usage activities might be under legal monitoring without notice.
4. The scenario is “It is my own fault if I walk on the street naked.  But it is really unfair for most innocents without enough technological knowledge, that they keep naked in front of their own PC in their own private bedroom and not awaring that someone is monitoring all their activities legally or illegally.”