file sharing is illegal?

Sharing movie and audio online is pretty common place, especially in the United State, where the Internet got it's start. Yet, we know that Asian countries are th worst for creation of pirated material and redistribution. Apparently, authorities are going to be more keen in those geographic areas, because there has finally been an arrest for the issue of online filesharing. A may was jailed for three months for uploading three movies for BitTorrent download. At least they aren't jailing the dowloaders... yet.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/07/asia/web.1107bit.php