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3rd Man Sentenced for Anime Sharing with Share Program

posted on by Egan Loo
21-year-old college student receives 1.5 years in prison, suspended for 3 years

On July 31, the Kyoto District Court sentenced 21-year-old college student arrested for unauthorized anime file-sharing in Japan on May 9, and Maki is the last of those three to be sentenced. Judge Jun-ichi Tochigi cited both the "simple and egotistical crime but also [Ōtomo's] remorse" in handing down the suspended sentence. The judge also mentioned Ōtomo's actions "wasted the efforts of the copyright holders who produced anime with massive production costs, so the property damage is also enormous." Ōtomo was a fourth-year student at Kinki University.

41-year-old company employee Moriyoshi Inoha from Tokyo and 34-year-old company employee Kasuhiro Maki from requested 18-month sentences in all three cases.

Share's developers had promised high anonymity for its s, but 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: Sankei Shimbun

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