SINGAPORE - Prosecutors have won a rare appeal to quash an 'excessive' 12-week jail term handed down to the director of a firm which sold Android TV boxes that allowed users to access pirated content.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - Prosecutors have won a rare appeal to quash an"excessive" 12-week jail term handed down to the director of a firm which sold Android TV boxes that allowed users to access pirated content.
State prosecutors had made the"unusual but necessary" move of appealing against the jail term because the lower court had relied on a 2013 sentencing precedent - cited by private prosecutors - that had eventually been overturned. He said the district judge's reliance"upon a decision that had been overturned on appeal was a clear error of law, resulting in a sentence that is manifestly excessive".
Against this backdrop of impending legislative changes, the decision in the present case will have little value as a precedent, as future cases would be prosecuted under the new laws, he said. The set-top boxes sold by Synnex allowed access to live EPL football matches, TVB channels streamed on StarHub and National Geographic documentaries owned by Fox, among others.
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