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'."

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This is the final straw

[t_allardyce]

Stupid laws that cost thousands of extra police hours not only waste tax-payers money, they take police from their real job and priority number one which is keeping the peace. Not only that, but the RIAA is terrorising people with its tactics, it has become a mafia and should be shut down today. Whats going on here is a total inequality of justice. You cant choose people to make examples out of, and you cant have anyone in a cell for downloading music while there are muggers, murderers and rapists out on the streets. full fucking stop.