Isamu Kaneko, the developer behind the Japanese P2P system Winny, has had his case appealed today by the Osaka High Court.
Kaneko was convicted originally in 2006 for enabling copyright infringement and fined ¥1.5 million.
The developer had been a research assistant at the University of Tokyo and is generally considered one of the forefathers of Japanese P2P.
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The whole ordeal is disgusting. To say creating encrypted / anonymous filesharing programs is a criminal offence? Maybe memorex are thereby liable for "allowing the possibility" of people to burn (albeit of questionable quality) duplicates of the latest would-have-been-platinum album. After all, they know it's possible.. The pirates!
these F_A_holes might have sued against inventor of internet if s/he is still alive, saying like this is a platform for downloading copy righted contents.
I think most anonymous p2p will be under a much more streamlined attack in a few years (i.e. Freenet, Iphex, I2P, Tor, Imule, Anomos) because the RIAA/MPAA/LEA will not be able to pick off downloaders/uploaders anymore since they wont be able to identify them. They are busting thousands of low-lying fruit now while they can because they know eventually onion-routing will become the norm (and will become faster as the years go by). The people will stick back at the corporate fatcats, ICE, MPAA, RIAA and all other bureaucrats who make up laws as they go along. Their time is coming, and it won't be good for them at all. And they now know it.
