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Japanese P2P Users Arrested, Creator Targeted

Posted by simoniker on from the stomp-the-miscreants dept.

nutznboltz writes "According to a story on CNET Asia, two Japanese users of the Winny P2P application have been arrested for copyright violations, and the developer of the P2P software has also had his home searched by police. Winny was 'supposedly anonymous', and purported to be based on Freenet, although Freenet creator Ian Clarke is claiming that Winny is not really like Freenet, and that he's 'not concerned that the Japanese police have somehow found a way to compromise Freenet's security'."

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  1. Freenet/Winny by TheJaff · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Considering the un-userfriendly state Freenet is right now (not being able to "search the [free]net") it would have been a huge accomplishment to completely base a P2P software on it. So my guess is that Winny more or less just mention Freenet for recognition purposes.

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