3 arrested for uploading comics
p2pnet.net news:- Mitsukazu Tamashiro, 29, from Osaka, Kenji Kodama of Morioka and a 17-year-old Tokyo high school student were arrested for allegedly using the Winny p2p application to upload comics before their official release, in the process infringing Japan’s copyright laws.
“According to the police, on several occasions between Jan. 31 and April 5, the three allegedly scanned onto a computer 12 cartoons drawn by six cartoonists printed in comic magazines, including Weekly Shonen Sunday, published by Shogakukan Inc., and Weekly Shonen Jump, published by Shueisha Inc,” says the Yomiuri Shimbun.
“The police said the three put the pictures on the Internet to allow the public to read them,” states the story. “The student posted three cartoons on the Internet four days before the magazine was released. Three of the six cartoons put on the Internet by Kodama, 26, were posted one day before they were released.”
This was the first time the law had been applied to uploading magazines, adds the Yomiuri Shimbun.
Also See:
Yomiuri Shimbun – 3 arrested over leaking comics to Internet, May 20, 2007
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May 22nd, 2007 at 10:21 pm
This is as fucked up as it gets. How did it come to a point where someone can be arrested for this sort of thing? There used to be a time when copyright owners would have to send cease and desist letters before persuing legal action. Instead, they’ve bribed their way into the courts to have law enforcers do their dirty work without any kind of warning. These people make me sick.
DEATH TO COPYRIGHTS!!!!!