wraggster
December 18th, 2013, 20:55
A 28-year-old man in Sweden has been fined 4.3 million SEK (~650,000 USD) for uploading one movie (http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-uploader-ordered-to-pay-625000-for-sharing-one-movie-131217/). 300,000 SEK of that was added because of the upload's low technical quality (http://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idg.se%2F2.1085%2F1.539673%2F43-miljoner-i-skadestand-for-fildelare%3F&act=url) (Google translation of Swedish original (http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.539673/43-miljoner-i-skadestand-for-fildelare)). The court ruled that the viewer watching the pirated version of the movie had a worse experience than people watching it legally, thereby causing damage to the movie's reputation (full judgement in Swedish (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/902374-12-506-vastmanland-swebits-dom-tingsratten.html)).
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/17/2346222/swedish-man-fined-650000-for-sharing-1-movie-charged-extra-for-low-quality
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/17/2346222/swedish-man-fined-650000-for-sharing-1-movie-charged-extra-for-low-quality