The host and webmaster of the site LeDivx.com may blow, justice has been lenient with him.
In early September, we talking LeDivx.com case in which eight complainants (six studios of American cinema and two French unions) claimed Kevin Hanon, webmaster of the site that referenced links to pirated content, not less than 978 000 euros in damages and interest for damage estimated at EUR 52 million. At 16, he founded LeDivx référença until 1587 illegal files. The site would have earned it up to €800 per month in advertising revenue.
At age of 21 years, without employment, married and father of a child below age, Kévine Hanon can breathe because the Angouleme Court has convicted two months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 1 symbolic euro it will have to pay each complainant is 8 euros in total, in addition to the 1200 euros in legal costs.
"Honestly, I expected to 100 000 and 200 000 euros." In such a case, it is the first to be sentenced to so few. Counsel did a super job (...) I regret now, but I had stopped the lycée. It was me in my days. A garbage of youth… "Sites like that, there are thousands" he explains in the South West journal. "The judgment is clearly satisfactory." It was a difficult to apprehend folder. "The tribunal made a large work on the technical level" said his lawyer.
Relief that has not been the webmaster of the site Grandma Tracker, sentenced for his part in early September to 300,000 euros in damages and interest for similar charges.
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