Japan cops use mystery ‘P2P surveillance’
p2pnet view MPAA:- Police in Japan are apparently using a mysterious “P2P surveillance system” to track uploads on behalf of the corporate movie industry.
“The crime control office of the Kyoto Prefectural police headquarters arrested Seiji Sato, a 62 year-old man living in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture, for uploading unauthorized movie files on the Internet, using the file-sharing software Share in violation of the Copyright Law” says Business of Cinema, going on:
“The police were able to determine, through the use of a P2P surveillance system, that the suspect uploaded an illegal copy of Avatar on the Internet sometime in December 2009. He had originally obtained a copy of this title from a different P2P site. The police also had evidence that he uploaded a copy of the movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians, using the same method sometime on 22 March, 2010, making the file available for downloading.”
Sato admitted uploading 500 titles, both Japanese and international, in the last four years, says the story, adding, “The police are currently carrying out further investigations into the extent of his activities.”
This was the first arrest using the “surveillance system”, which went online in January.
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Business of Cinema – Man arrested for uploading movie files illegally in Japan using Share, April 7, 2010
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April 7th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
The thing is, he only uploaded files he already downloaded. So they were already online and available. All he did was p2p-sharing.
This puff piece should state, “Man arrested for using p2p”. But instead they go on about uploading like he was some mastermind ripping stuff and making it available for the first time ever.
How fucking dramatic.
April 7th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
The cops should go and do some real police work.
April 7th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
It doesn’t seem to be said whether Sato’s “uploading” resulted from a direct act of putting the file up for share himself, or simply from using BitTorrent to download it.
This also reminds everyone of why a “licensing” or “taxation” scheme would never decriminalize torrenting. In order for any of those schemes to work, ALL rights holders would have to agree to pardon all filesharers. But, as long as someone is considered an “uploader”, rights holders will always want the reserve that “right” to sue for “illegal distribution”.
April 8th, 2010 at 10:53 am
“This also reminds everyone of why a “licensing” or “taxation” scheme would never decriminalize torrenting. In order for any of those schemes to work, ALL rights holders would have to agree to pardon all filesharers. But, as long as someone is considered an “uploader”, rights holders will always want the reserve that “right” to sue for “illegal distribution”.
shhhhhhh, no one is supposed to notice that.
How are groups like the FAC going to sell a ‘net tax’ if everyone knew how little it would actually change
things ?
April 8th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
1 down over 100 million to go lol
April 9th, 2010 at 6:43 am
On a technical level its said that “Share” is a derivative of the “Winny” system and that is supposed to be pretty secure thus just how they targetted this person is of major interest to many, in the Winny case of some years ago it turned out they had compromised a bulletin board as the client hash was too strong an encryption method for them but by taking control of the bulletin board they where able to pair an IP with the client hash and thus establish an ID, thus one wonders if something similar was used here or whether they had technical help from external sources, the answers to this question will likley be of interest to many but I suspect we wont be seeing any info just yet as unfocused fear is their weapon not taking down a few filesharers.
If the Cartel want a fight is pretty easy to give them one, lets continue to not purchase anything and step up the pressure on those who speak up for the Cartel online to drive them and their wares off the net, we have many millions of filesharers able to devote time and effort is it not time to awake the sleeping giant and organise them into a force that has decided enough is enough, doing nothing is an option that is slowly slipping away, apathy is not going to save or create anything for the future , time to rise up folks and be counted they need us more than we need them and its about time we too recognised that and added our voices, be not silent when attacked.
October 22nd, 2010 at 1:41 am
1 down over and over 1,000,000,000 to go.