(Dagbladet): A Czech data pirate – only named as Jakub F. – was taken for widespread violations of intellectual property law in the Czech Republic, and companies such as Microsoft, HBO and Sony demanded large sums of money in compensation for all the money the hacker must have cost them.
Then he came and counterparty agree on a punishment out of the ordinary.
Court of the Czech Republic took Jakub guilty as it sang, but in a settlement with the big companies was 30-year-old spared several million in compensation expenses – on one condition: He had to make a movie against illegal downloading, and the film had to get at least 200,000 views, reports BBC.
It was after Microsoft and the other companies realized that Jakub did not have funds to pay the sums he had cost them that this unusual punishment was proposed. Microsoft alone estimated that pirate owed them 1.6 million.
Now the companies have promised not to sue the Czech – and let the matter lie – if his film got 200.00 views within two months after the date of publication. The companies want to leverage off Jakub many contacts on the internet to get him to share the video as widely as possible.
– I did not think I did anything wrong. I thought I did not hurt the big companies. I was convinced that I was a small fish in the pond, writes Jakub even on the side where the film can be seen.
In the film warns Jakub others who share the downloaded material also can be taken. The court in the Czech Republic stated that Jakub never downloaded illegally to earn money – only to spread to other ideological purposes.
The film is now seen 135,000 times – that need Jakub 65,000 views in order to avoid litigation and huge compensation sums. We can only assume that he is sitting at home and press “F5″ as if it were his life.
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