This is, to my knowledge, the first time an indivual Bit Torrent user has been targeted in any anti-P2P action. Details are sparse, but a man in Hong Kong was apparently arrested for trading in unauthorized content via Bit Torrent. Reports do not disclose whether he seeded the network with an unauthorized Torrent file, or simply downloaded a file, or was more extensively involved in distributing files. The legal distinction between uploading (supplying files) and downloading (taking files) is even more blurred on Bit Torrent than on KaZaA, where much of the RIAA actions have transpired. With Bit Torrent, downloaders are, by definition, also uploaders, and it is far more difficult to prevent the uploading half of the equation.
