A court in France this week was criticised for dishing out a “severe” sentence to a young Frenchman who created his own site for illegal downloading.
The unemployed, IT wizard, known online as Jefjef10, was handed a 10-month suspended jail sentence by judges in the town of Thionville, western France on Tuesday and ordered to pay the maximum €1 million ($1.34 million) in damages to the music and film companies who had lodged complaints, which included Disney, Warner, Century Fox and Colombia Pictures.
His lawyer Nicolas Rebbot, blasted the sentence as “severe” and claimed the site “forum-ddl” had not made his client a rich man and therefor he had no hope of paying the damages demanded by the court.
“The conviction was expected in light of the law, as was the suspended prison sentence, which is normally between six and 12 months, but the amount of damages is disproportionate and it is not comparable to the actual harm done.”
But France’s SACEM (Society of Authors, composers and Publishers of Music) which was also a complainant in the case has vowed to do everything to get the money owed to them. Full story...
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The unemployed, IT wizard, known online as Jefjef10, was handed a 10-month suspended jail sentence by judges in the town of Thionville, western France on Tuesday and ordered to pay the maximum €1 million ($1.34 million) in damages to the music and film companies who had lodged complaints, which included Disney, Warner, Century Fox and Colombia Pictures.
His lawyer Nicolas Rebbot, blasted the sentence as “severe” and claimed the site “forum-ddl” had not made his client a rich man and therefor he had no hope of paying the damages demanded by the court.
“The conviction was expected in light of the law, as was the suspended prison sentence, which is normally between six and 12 months, but the amount of damages is disproportionate and it is not comparable to the actual harm done.”
But France’s SACEM (Society of Authors, composers and Publishers of Music) which was also a complainant in the case has vowed to do everything to get the money owed to them. Full story...
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