manga file sharer faces year in prison

[mori]

posted this thread on nf but thought i'd do it here too in case anyone was interested.

Hrm well I'm sure anyone who's been paying attention the last few months was aware of the triple arrests made on people that were sharing of manga over winny (if you weren't check it here (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-05-18/three-arrested-in-japan-for-file-sharing-shonen-manga))

Anyway it would appear trials are underway and it definately looks like they are trying to crack down/make a point.

The prosecution has requested a one-year prison sentence today for one of the Japanese defendants charged with the unauthorized online distribution of manga. The 29-year-old defendant from Osaka is the oldest of the three arrested on May 18 for uploading manga magazines to Japan's Winny file-sharing system. The defense requested a suspended sentence since its client is a first-time defendant. The defendant was charged with violating Japan's Copyright Act. The ruling is expected to be handed down on July 20. Source: Sports Hochi

ouch, a year in jail for sharing manga :/

[Beee]

owch o_____O;;

but what I'm wondering is... how did they get caught??

[Gintoki]

It's not that hard for the police to find someone, when you have his IP.

[Geta Boshi]

This was about a month back the problem was caused well by , Non Mainland SJ's release / arrive a few days earlier they put up spoilers and there pc was under surveillance. This wasnt the first time they put stuff on the internet

[aznxenocide]

A year? Damn. Were they just sharing one series? Or lots of volumes or lots of different series?

[Inuhanyou]

i remember that, didnt they get caught with D.Gray? cause i think i remember somebody saying something about arrests in the d gray section of mangahelpers..

[Geta Boshi]

The series were

The infringed works are reported to be

* two installments of Shun Matsuena's Shijou Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shijō_Saikyō_no_Deshi_Kenichi).

* two installments of Makoto Raiku's Konjiki no Gash!! (Zatch Bell) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatch_Bell!).

* two installments of Nakaba Suzuki's Blizzard Axel.

[Sola]

Ahahahaha lol. We'd all be arrested lol.

[Geta Boshi]

Yes if the slueths snoop on the manga section we are all goners Xp

[Shirosaki]

crap

thats not good

[Beee]

Yes if the slueths snoop on the manga section we are all goners Xp

I do not know you individuals nor have I ever spoken you any of you for any reason other than to deny any link whatsoever with you people. O.O

[spacecat]

Gah poor bastard, he might have been the one providing Bleach raws :( that really sucks. I don't think a year sounds right...bah

[Shannon]

Wow, that's so sad. D:
It's like the Kazaa crisis and illegal music downloading, manga-style.

[Surreal]

Ahahahaha lol. We'd all be arrested lol.

Naw.

Well, police only cracks down on those who infringe the copyright laws by widely distributing the material. So if you for example take a licensed series and start spreading it around by hosting it for a large audience then there is a chance you will have trouble with the police.

But just by owning the material and for example, giving it to your friend, nothing can happen to you, since in eyes of the police and owner of the mentioned material you are not doing any damage.

Thats why BSA wont enter your home in search for a illegal BitDefender but will enter the company that uses a cracked BitDefender.

This is also why you will never get arrested for owning illegal mp3s.
Also, the police or the owner of the material is going to act much faster and harsher if you actually distribute the material for your own personal profit.

But the most important thing is, Japan laws don't apply to any of us unless we are actually there citizens.

They only course of action for them would be to notify our government and judicial system and then try to get the distributer sanctioned if the country in question has similair copyright laws. That won't happen because you scanlated 100 manga pages with 1000 downloads.

And that will never happen if you happened to download those chapters.

They probably made an example out of the guy, to scare of others.

[Byakuya]

Wow that sucks bigtime D:

[Saffire]

I know there was a security problem with Share that made it possible to collect IP addresses and upload information, and Share is based on Winny so it may have had the same problem. (Not to mention no new version of Winny has come out in some time because the author was arrested.)

[mori]

the only problems with winny back when people first got caught and fined were to do with its inbuilt forum feature, that didn't offer anonymity for the thread starter. Its encryptions within the program weren't able to be able to be cracked by the police though. So either they finally were able to crack the encryptions or it was another forum related bust.