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Japanese P2P Users Arrested, Creator Targeted
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'."
1. p2p isn't piracy or crime, just like everything else it can be used to violate laws, so p2p != piracy.
2. copying software isn't theft or crime, it's just copyright violation (I'm not saying it's cool, it's just not a crime)
Piracy is a crime and these folks were arrested for it. I don't see why this is news.
Uh, not quite. Software piracy may be a crime, but writing a P2P application, which has practical purposes for sharing files legally, isn't (as far as I know).
It's a sad day when writing a file sharing application is enough to get your house turned upside down by the police or get you thrown into jail.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
You can search Freenet _exactly_ in the same way you can search the World Wide Web. If you use a messageboard/filesharing application on top of Freenet (like Frost) you can search with a nice little search box per board or in all of them.
:)
But please, why not post uninformed opinions on Slashdot and get modded up as Insightful
it's in my head
You can search Freenet _exactly_ in the same way you can search the World Wide Web. If you use a messageboard/filesharing application on top of Freenet (like Frost) you can search with a nice little search box per board or in all of them.
You just proved his point by thinking in the programmer mindset.
"IF you use a messageboard/filesharing application on top of Freenet" - but not if you haven't. You need to download and install a whole program to do something as basic as searching. This is nowhere near "_exactly_ in the same way you can search the WWW".
What we need to do is not to turn away from reality and claim Freenet is easy to use - instead we need to face it, accept the fact that its usability is low, and think of ways to improve them. Denial isn't going to get you anywhere.
ANd why are the neighborhoods destroyed?
Because the pushers are doing something very risky for very high profits; because the users have to pay a artificially high price for drugs. eliminate government interference, prices go down, it's no longer neccesary to have hired goons running around guarding the drug dealers, no longer worthwhile to KILL to protect your drug supply.
Drugs are a problem. the Violence and crime associated with drugs is 90%+ the result of the war on crime.
Don't believe me? think about the 60's & 70's. I was there, I know.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
Have a second internet with a completely different method of assigning IP address. NAT all traffic passing through your box.
Hey presto, no-one knows if it came from you, or the person behind you, and there is no ISP that can be asked who "owned" an IP at a certain time.
Get your own free personal location tracker
Not knowing the contents of your drive space I doubt would work as a defense. If that drive space can be shown to have distributed copyrighted material its likely that's all that matters.
Owners seem responsible even if they're unaware. You can loose your car if you loan it to a friend who uses it to buy drugs.
A mother was convicted (Ohio) of manslaughter because while she was asleep upstairs her 19 year old daughter and friends got drunk in the basement two stories below, left the house and killed someone while driving. She was the owner of the house and "should have known" stuff...
A man was convicted for manslaughter because his friend, arrested for DUI asked the police to call him and pick his friend up at the police station when he was released. The guy who was arrested asked his friend to take him to his car and drop him off. He did and went back home to bed. His friend gets back in his car, kills himself and someone else, apparently he was still drunk. It was his friend who picked him up and dropped him off at his car who gets arrested for manslaughter even though he was asleep when the crime happened and it was his friend who did it.
If I have a WiFi and someone driving by my house uses my network to send a threating email to the President... The SS comes and takes all my equipment with no hope of getting it back.
On and on... If the data is encrypted and I don't know what's in my drive space it almost makes the pain of conviction hurt that much worse. Kinda like getting fucked with the courtisy of a reach around.
Well IANAJC (I am not a Japanese Citizen), but as a citizen of another known "democratic republic", I just have to wonder. Weren't we supposed to be pretending that government did something other than <>?
Just as a gas, I'm including a relevant clip from Japan's constitution. Reach your own conclusions.
Article 21:
Freedom of assembly and association as well as speech, press and all other forms of expression are guaranteed. 2) No censorship shall be maintained, nor shall the secrecy of any means of communication be violated.