$7,000 Fine for Sharing “WordPress For Dummies” on BitTorrent | TorrentFreak

A New York federal court has ordered a rare default judgment in favor of John Wiley & Sons, one of the world's largest book publishers. Robert Carpenter from Poughkeepsie, New York, has been ordered to pay the publisher $7,000 in damages for sharing a copy of "WordPress All-in-One For Dummies" on BitTorrent. According to Judge William Pauley, the man is guilty of both copyright and trademark infringement. bittorrent for dummiesLast fall, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. And the publisher didn't stop at just one. In recent months Wiley has filed more than a dozen mass BitTorrent lawsuits involving a few hundred John Doe defendants in total.