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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[JoeShmoe]

There's an old joke that goes...

A new prisoner is at lunch with some fellow inmates when one of them bellows out "36!". Right away all the other inmates in the cafeteria start to chuckle and guffaw. A few minutes later, another inmate yells "28!" and everyone starts laughing and smiling. Soon another inmates shouts "12!" and soon everyone is rolling on the floor in laughter. The new prisoner turns to another inmate and asks what's going on. The inmate explains that the prisor library only has one joke book, and since everyone has read it a thousand times over, to save time people just shout out the page number of the joke the want to tell. The new prisoner decides to get into the swing of things, so he stands up on a table and screams out "17!" Dead silence results. Sheepishly, the new prisoner sits down and resumes eating his lunch. "Man," the inmate exclaims, "some people just can't tell a joke."

My point in all this is that I've seen enough of these stories and bellowed out enough appropriate statement of outrages that I'm tired of repeating myself and others, so I'm gonna simply call it "17" and be done with it. This can include:

1) stupid analogies about hammers and crowbars
2) ridiculous hypotheticals about some guy named Britney Spears who actually wants to give away his music
3) references to anti-freedom, anti-democracy and probably a handful of Godwin's law violations
4) detail explanations of 1500 programs that do the same thing but somehow escape attention
5) updated links to kazaalite

Okay, so...that's all about that. From now on, if the story says "P2P" then just put me down for an automatic "17" and let me get on with my day.

- JoeShmoe
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