Japan - Anime Copyright Violation Arrests

Three users of the popular Japanese P2P application Winny were arrested today, 24th January 2008, charged with uploading anime images/video, in violation of Japanese copyright law.

In Japan it is legal to download copyrighted material, however uploading unauthorized copyrighted material - as was the case for the three arrested - is illegal.

Two of the individuals are charged with uploading episode 23 of Idolmaster Xenoglossia, while the third is charged with uploading images from Clannad (as part of a virus he was trying to spread).

Source: ANN

Filed under: Anime, Japan, Law, Legal | Top
- Posted by Dark on January 24, 2008

5 Comments »

  1. SilverGoku says:

    When I first read about this I was LOL. ^_^ But I guess the japanese are up to date with piracy it seems…lol. But I did find the part that japan has no law for a person to be convicted of making a virus… thats kinda sad.

    Comment posted January 24, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
  2. Dark says:

    I expect he is also being charged for making the virus, if it is just for the Clannad pictures and they are ignorning the virus that would be pretty crazy.

    Comment posted January 24, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
  3. Dark says:

    Ok, seems like it is just for the copyright violation ^^.

    http://torrentfreak.com/virus-creator-threatened-080124/

    Comment posted January 24, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
  4. dexter says:

    the 2 of them (excluding the virus spreading guy) are actually quite pitiful…

    to be the unlucky ones chosen among so many others to be set as a deterrent to the rest of the community…

    Comment posted January 25, 2008 @ 3:37 am
  5. Otaku Times » Clannad Malware Creator Charged With Copyright Violation; Defamation says:

    [...] these guys? Masato Nakatsuji, the former 24-year-old Osaka Electro-Communication University graduate student [...]

    Pingback posted April 17, 2008 @ 10:03 am

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