Woman receives fine instead of jail term for video piracy
Published on Aug 26, 2011
The owner of a Sim Lim Square shop, sentenced to seven months in jail for infringing on the copyright of nearly 15,000 music videos, got away with a fine of $96,000 on appeal yesterday.
Yu Peng Hsueh-Shu, a Taiwanese, was charged with having 8,436 pirated videos on 24 disks in the electronics shopping mall last July.
The hard disks were in the karaoke players that her shop also sold.
She was represented by Mr Leo Cheng Suan, who argued that the jail term handed down to her earlier should not have been based on the number of clips in her possession, but on the number of hard disks on which the clips were stored.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
