🔗 Share this article Danish individual receives suspended sentence for sharing nude film scenes on Reddit A Denmark-based man has been convicted of sharing sexually explicit segments from protected films and television shows on the social media site Reddit. Based on a police report reviewed by BBC News, the unnamed individual shared 347 video excerpts of nude content in a subreddit he managed, which were then watched 4.2 million-plus times. The country's police state he has been handed a seven-month deferred sentence for violating copyright laws. Legal analysts say the man was prosecuted under a seldom-invoked clause in Danish copyright law, with the judge finding that by removing the footage out of their intended setting, the accused had damaged the performers' "moral rights". He has additionally been found guilty of sharing more than 25 TB of protected digital content. From March 2022 to May 2023, the man known as "the pseudonym KlammereFyr" on Reddit posted sexually explicit clips including over 100 actresses. He distributed them in the forum he was a moderator of. According to the Denmark's anti-piracy organization the Rights Alliance, his online community had more than 6,000 subscribers and participants were prompted to request excerpts of particular actors. In last year, campaigners reported the case to the police on behalf of the impacted actors, directors and production companies, which resulted in the forum being closed down. One actress, one of the performers whose explicit scenes were circulated in the community, told Danish broadcasters at the period she believed there was a distinction between appearing unclothed in a film and appearing on Reddit. The actress stated the posts constituted "abuse". 'A significant signal' The man was arrested in September 2024 and pleaded culpable to the allegations last month. In a statement after the verdict, TRA head Maria Fredenslund remarked the decision sent an "important" message "that violations of creators' entitlements have consequences". The ruling is considered unprecedented in Denmark for its application of the "moral rights" section of the national copyright law, which specifies an artist's work cannot be used in a way which violates their reputation. Copyright law specialist a legal scholar told the media the legal matter was "unusual" for its focus on the harm to the integrity of an performer, rather than to them financially. How the case could influence nations abroad is unclear. But she said there may be "an increasing number of such cases" in the coming years with the growth of artificial intelligence, where "the integrity of an individual's work might be compromised with greater ease".