[IP] P2P software developer busted

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: IKEDA Nobuo <ikedanob@db3.so-net.ne.jp>
Date: May 10, 2004 3:27:40 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
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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