16 July 2012
$7,000 Fine for Sharing "WordPress For Dummies" on BitTorrent A New York federal court ruled 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, thus becoming guilty of both copyright and trademark infringement.