Jan
24
2008
Three Arrested For Uploading Anime
Posted by: Shin in Miscellaneous, tags: Anime, Japanwww, News, Otaku
In most other countries, it would be illegal to download anime, but being the source of it all, the reverse would also be true in Japan. Three men are now being charged of illegally uploading anime episodes and images through Winny, a popular P2P program. Sounds like a normal news item, but here’s where it gets interesting.
One of the suspects, Male C, a 24 year old graduate student from Osaka, is also charged for implementing a virus in the aforementioned images, depicting Kyou of Clannad pulling Tomoya’s tie. Now that’s one virus I don’t mind bypassing my firewalls ^^ All your systems are belong to Kyou.
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January 24th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
LOL, awesome
So were they uploading anime or images?
January 24th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Both actually. Among the shows uploaded were Gundam 00 and Idolm@ster Xenoglossia. They’re making a fuss over the images since there’s a virus inside it ^^;
January 24th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Bandai pulling this shit off?
Somehow it makes sense.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Actually in many countries uploading is what’s illegal, not downloading (technically). Of course that distinction is moot with BitTorrent, where one does both simultaneously.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:26 am
@drmchsr0
Cue Tatsuhiro Sato’s cries for conspiracy?
@Mike Huang
Shows how much I know then, thanks for the correction ^^;
January 25th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Well, at least they put Kyou image in it ^^.