Ginta
2nd December 2003, 17:10
Posted on Sat Nov 29th, 2003 at 12:58:35 AM GMT
http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2003/11/28/12564/146
Three years ago an anonymous person known only as "47" created what has arguably become the most popular file sharing application in Japan, Winny. Today police entered and investigated his home in Kyoto and forced him to take down the Winny homepage. They also arrested two users of the program on charges of copyright violation. Google provides a cached copy of the Winny homepage.
Winny is/was a very strange breed of file sharing application based on Freenet. This case is alarming because Winny users were supposed to be anonymous.
One of the complaints against the users of Winny was put forward Nintendo.
http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2003/11/28/12564/146
Three years ago an anonymous person known only as "47" created what has arguably become the most popular file sharing application in Japan, Winny. Today police entered and investigated his home in Kyoto and forced him to take down the Winny homepage. They also arrested two users of the program on charges of copyright violation. Google provides a cached copy of the Winny homepage.
Winny is/was a very strange breed of file sharing application based on Freenet. This case is alarming because Winny users were supposed to be anonymous.
One of the complaints against the users of Winny was put forward Nintendo.