Portuguese that created illegal sharing site goes on judgment

The si te author torrents Btuga be brought to trial, ruled the Court of Appeal of Lisbon, in a ruling dated April 14 and now known, which repeal the decision of the court of inquiry presented in July 2010.
The Portuguese site file-sharing had been completed in July 2007, following an operation carried out by the PJ and the ASAE, prompted by complaints from the Portuguese Phonographic Association (AFP) and the Federation of Editors of videos (FEVIP) representing the music industry and video in Portugal.
Luis Ferreira will now be tried for the crime of theft of copyright, "writes the public, citing portions of the above, according to which" the defendant used the P2P network and the BitTorrent protocol for the sole and exclusive purpose of making or using the same changes were made to let / sharing of content / files protected by copyright. "
The defendant also sent to service users who wanted through this to exchange / to share / disclose / use films, music, games, videos of more recent authors of [that] were in possession "benefiting all users of the network because "the change would not cost anything monetarily to none," adds up.
The decision now rendered determines, therefore, that, contrary to the court of inquiry concluded, "the defendant made use lawful means to accomplish an unlawful end completely allowing the exchange / use / disclosure of the most varied videographic works, phonographic and others subject to the regime of copyright. "
The court also observed that service users also "commit the crime of copyright theft," because they are "exploiters and users of protected works."
The Btuga is the oldest of the three sites and used in the operation closed in 2007. A 2005 study of Marktest indicated that the site led the national rankings for the number of hours spent surfing - 478,000 hours - and was third in the number of pages viewed by ISPs Portuguese - with 12, 5 million hits. The latest data presented by the system administrator, and quoted in the statement of the AFP and FEVIP, gave account of assets and 134,500 registered users www.btuga.pt site was visited daily by about 110,000 users.