[IP] P2P software developer busted
Begin forwarded message:
From: IKEDA Nobuo <ikedanob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 10, 2004 3:27:40 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [IP] P2P software developer busted
This would be the first case in the world in which a developer of P2P
software was arrested for "abetting" copyright violation.
> A Tokyo University assistant researcher who developed the
controversial
> Winny [P2P] program has been arrested for breaking copyright laws,
> police said.
>
> The 33-year-old academic, Isamu Kaneko, was arrested Monday for
abetting
> the violation of the Copyright Law by the creation of the software.
>
> Kaneko, one of the world's first developers of file-sharing software
to
> be arrested, admits to the allegations.
> Kaneko used Ni Chaneru [Channel 2], Japan's biggest online bulletin
> board, to announce in April 2002 that he had developed shareware that
> gave users a thicker veil of secrecy, then set up a website the
> following month where people could download Winny for free.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040510p2a00m0dm003000c.html
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Ikeda, Nobuo
GLOCOM, International University of Japan
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