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Tokyo Man Found Guilty of Anime File-Sharing
posted on by Egan Loo
The Kyoto District Court has found one of three defendants guilty of unauthorized ing of asked for that length of prison time for Inoha on July 4.
One of the other defendants, 34-year-old company employee Kasuhiro Maki from Takahiro Ōtomo from Hiroshima Prefecture were the first in Japan to be arrested for allegedly using Share, a program that had promised high anonymity for its s. (Ever since security researchers found flaws in Share in 2006, other successor applications have been developed.)
Japan's Copyright Law prohibits unauthorized ers but expressly allows people to for private use. The Japanese government is pushing for a ban on unauthorized s as well, despite receiving thousands of messages from citizens opposing the ban.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun
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