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Winny P2P Software Creator Arrested
News for nerds writes "The author of Winny, the Japanese P2P software with encrypted networking capability, similar to Freenet, has been today officially arrested for abetment of copyright violation, after the raid in the last December. He started its development in May 2002 and occasionally appeared on the web forum 2ch with his anonymous codename "47", but today turned out to be an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Tokyo in his 30s. Winny was so efficient and popular that it generated problems even at the Japanese police and the GSDF.
As the Japanese police is the most advanced among the world in pulling P2P into criminal cases, outcry of users in Japan is expected."
> Couldn't you say the same thing about guns?
Why, yes, you could. Now, given the utter irrelevance of the comparison between guns and mp3s, could you explain why you made this comment?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Well, the author was supposed to marry the sheriff's son, but ran out, leaving him at the alter. So the sheriff and his son go chasing the black Trans Am that the author climbed into. Little does the sheriff know, though, but the driver of the black Trans Am is running blocker for an 18-wheeler that's full of coors beer that's being bootlegged from Texas to win an $80,000 bet.