A counterfeiter who sold pirated DVDs to overseas buyers through the eBay online auction site has been jailed in Hong Kong, a news report said Tuesday. In the first case of its kind in the territory, 35-year-old Yung Chun-pong was jailed for three-and-a-half years Monday for possessing pirated copyrighted works and attempting to export them.

Yung, described by the judge as an “intelligent culprit,” used legitimate companies, such as FedEx, to send the pirated discs overseas after packaging them, the South China Morning Post reported.

By the time he was arrested in January 2005, when customs officers detained five people and seized 46,742 discs, he had already sold discs on eBay and delivered some to the United States.

Posted: 04|17|07 at 2:18 pm. Filed under: Auction News.