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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."
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> 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.
Guns have a very legitimate use: self defense. Also recall our second ammendment right to to keep and bear arms.
Yes ya can say the same thing about guns.
And thats why most thinking peoples want to get rid of them. If you are a US resident, you will know a good deal of idiots claim they should be freely availble because the constitution says they should be. Unfortunately, these things are now being used in ways the constitution never expected -- gun ownership was supposed to be there for the purpose of having a well armed peoples militia and to uprise against the gov't in case an unjust one were to appear.
Good ideas considering they were in a revolution at the time they wrote it but it makes no sense today from several points of view.
First, there is no f'n way that a militia could rise up with the guns available to the public today. Like the Iraqis, we could be pests to the forces, kill a bunch of people, but all in all, it would only be protest and not a real force. Howitzers and 50 Cals and the fact the the average citizen does not have armor.
Secondly, guns were never mentioned to be there for self protection.
Third, the founding fathers lacked the foresight to see everything. Whats good then might not have been appropriate not. Just because its on the paper doesn't make it a holy document. I truely believe Abortion should be legal under the bounds of the constitution, yet the conservatives who pretend that they want no new laws enacted other than whats there misinterpret this each and everytime. If the founding fathers were transported to the current time? I'm positive they would say that abortion is an abberation and should be outlawed against any means. Personal freedoms be damned, they and their value system wouldn't have allowed this (well maybe Franklin who would have been happy not to have so many illegitimate children in a dozen countries running around like an 18th century cap'n kirk).
So yes, guns are designed to kill. That is their entire reason for being. They aren't a tool and the only motive they have is to send a piece off metal flying straight enough to hit and dig into flesh injuring the person or object facing it. Constitutionally they are obsolete and should be taken out of the hands of the public.
The same with P2P apps. They were designed for one thing only -- to transmit illegal software and data. There are much easier ways to locate and transmit this shit. There are ways to locate and transmit this stuff almost anonymously. If you wanted to trade articles from the Anarchist Cookbook or the Hitman Diaries, the gov't might not like it, but they are powerless to stop you. As such, the *ONLY* things left are those that want to trade illegal goods that aren't just inappropriate or maybe damaging to your reputation, are just that -- the illegal data.
At one point, I had high hopes for P2P software. It could have started a new publishing revolution. Even more than the web. Instead, it turned out to be a publishing other peoples shit revolution. If copyright is not that important to all the fucking pirates and otherwise, why don't you create and develop content and see how long you survive. Or even without the profit motive, why not publish good works that are public domain (none of this GPL stuff because thats still forcing a copyright belief on the end user) -- not shitty stuff that wouldn't make it past a junior editor or sounds like it was produced by a 3rd rate engineer or would have never made it out of a software developers planning meeting (not even gonna bitch about having realworld user tested GUIs...ok maybe a subtle jab).
I will support the abolition of copyright and support P2P softwares when content of any sort goes back to being artisan quality and product once again. Folks that can do both a real job and come home at night feverously slaving away to get their lifes dream accomplisheed without having to compromise to make a living off of it. Until that day, copyright is something a good deal of us need and folks using and creating P2P software are stealing our livelyhoods. You want to start a revolution, do so with your own data. Linux is a decent start. Now we need to see this in other realms.
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.