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2nd Man Sentenced for Anime Sharing with Share Program
posted on by Egan Loo
On July 24, the Kyoto District Court sentenced 34-year-old company employee Kasuhiro Maki from arrested for unauthorized anime file-sharing in Japan on May 9, and Maki is the second of those three to be sentenced.
Moriyoshi Inoha, a 41-year-old company employee from Tokyo, also compared anime file-sharing to "distributing bread that was shoplifted from a supermarket," which drew an out-of-court critique from Maki's defense counsel about the appropriateness of the comparison.
Share's developers had promised high anonymity for its s, but ever since security researchers found flaws in Share in 2006, other successor applications have been developed. Japan's Copyright Law prohibits unauthorized ers but expressly allows people to for private use. The Japanese government is pushing for a ban on unauthorized s as well, despite receiving thousands of messages from citizens opposing the ban.
Source: Kyoto Shimbun
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