5 Japan teens arrested for file sharing
p2pnet news view Music:- Japan is hopping smartly to it on behalf of Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US).
Five teenagers, all site admins on the One Touch BB, “were brought in for questioning by the police last week, including one 13-year old who was given juvenile probation,” says Billboard.
They’d already been warned to, “stop using copyright-protected material,” says the story.
In recent months, two adults have been arrested for uploading songs to the site.
Following complaints by the Big 4’s JASRAC rights’ society, “police issued warnings to Aichi Information System, the operators of the BBS, and hauled in the five teenagers from the city of Fukuoka,” says the story, adding:
“JASRAC has previously filed complaints about the same site and the police have taken action against two people in the last two months. In April a male university student was fined 600,000 yen ($6,120), and in May a 54-year-old male doctor was fined 500,000 yen ($5,100).”
June, 2009
Billboard – Japan Cracks Down On Internet Copyright Violation, June 11, 2009
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