A Belgian man threatens a compensation of more than 60,000 euros imposed on them because he movies, software and music had downloaded from the site belgium-scene. The administrators of that site have a settlement with the Belgian auteursrechtwaakhond BAF.
The man in Monday along with five others to defend in the court in Gent. “‘I did it because it was cheaper than a cd or dvd to buy,” he said according to het Nieuwsblad. A 39-year-old man from Putte stood. He is accused of 253 movies, 64 computer games and 22,000 music files have been downloaded from illegal source.
The Belgian Anti-piracy Federation is claiming compensation of a total 37.714 euro of this man. The organization comes up that amount by 15 euros per film and a euro for a track count, which for a movie on disc is burned, a fee of 60 euro is included.
The man said films for children are downloaded to, and have not realized that this was illegal, because these are also on Youtube were. The BAF calls this statement “no safe-conduct’. “By the piracy reduces the revenue and that is bad for the industry”, said BAF lawyer Stephane Criel.
The two men took their files through the site www.belgium-scene.be. The administrators of this site were initially in the trial, but struck a settlement with the BAF by any amount between 10,000 euros and 25,000 euros to pay. In addition to the compensation demands of the public prosecutor a penalty of 4,500 euro for each of the six men. At the beginning of June speaks to the court in Gent judgment.
Update, 12.30 pm: The BAF should be no complaints against file sharers, only against distributors, says Olivier Maeterlinck, director of BEA, the federation of producers and distributors of movies, games and music in Belgium. Also the BAF is below. He let us know that the matter of Monday, was aimed against the administrators, founders and uploaders of the forums”. “As is always the case,” says Maeterlinck against Datanews.
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