Comments on: Winny user’s 3-year sentence http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3153 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:38:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3153/comment-page-1#comment-7386 Reader's Write Wed, 01 Dec 2004 02:31:00 +0000 #comment-7386 Was Yoshihiro Inoue a Winny developer, contributor or distributor (in other words - someone at the software's supply end) or just an ordinary file sharer using Winny? Since in Japan, P2P software itself is illegal, and the police are prosecuting both the P2P software developers as well as the users. So the victim's role really needs to be pointed out. (something most news stories failed to do) So I searched Google news and found this: "Inoue used the Winny program at his home in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on September 24 and 25 last year and enabled general computer users to download the Hollywood film "A Beautiful Mind" and another movie on the Internet, the ruling said." Since Winny is supposed to be an anonymous P2P network, exactly how was this guy caught sharing files? Also, was he sharing more than just the 2 movies listed? Did the police raid his home and snatch his computer? I know this is not the first time something like this has happened. It might appear that Japan is the most P2P-hostile country in the world. I have to wonder what has been going on there? The situation seems far different from that in the USA, where software developers and users routinely get sued, but not arrested. Unfortunately, I don't understand Japanese, but I think the P2P situation in Japan really deserves some investigating. Could this be the trend of the future in other countries? Was Yoshihiro Inoue a Winny developer, contributor or distributor (in other words – someone at the software’s supply end) or just an ordinary file sharer using Winny? Since in Japan, P2P software itself is illegal, and the police are prosecuting both the P2P software developers as well as the users. So the victim’s role really needs to be pointed out. (something most news stories failed to do)

So I searched Google news and found this:

“Inoue used the Winny program at his home in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on September 24 and 25 last year and enabled general computer users to download the Hollywood film “A Beautiful Mind” and another movie on the Internet, the ruling said.”

Since Winny is supposed to be an anonymous P2P network, exactly how was this guy caught sharing files? Also, was he sharing more than just the 2 movies listed? Did the police raid his home and snatch his computer? I know this is not the first time something like this has happened.

It might appear that Japan is the most P2P-hostile country in the world. I have to wonder what has been going on there? The situation seems far different from that in the USA, where software developers and users routinely get sued, but not arrested. Unfortunately, I don’t understand Japanese, but I think the P2P situation in Japan really deserves some investigating. Could this be the trend of the future in other countries?

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