A followup to yesterday’s story about the arrest of two Japanese users of WinMX, a P2P file-trading app. It’s a press-release from the Association of Copyright for Computer Software, crowing about it. If anyone out there speaks Japanese, I have some links to some Japanese-language reportage on the case, too, that I’d love to see translated.

Investigation section for high-tech crime of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Headquarters, Yamashina Police,Gojo Police searched the home of a man (student of a university) �??`(aged 19) in Suginami-ku, Tokyo and a man (student of a technical collage) �??a(aged 20) in Saitama-city on November, 28, 2001, under the suspicion of copyright infringement (violation of the right of public transmission) and arrested them on the same day. They are alleged to have made business software and the like accessible by Internet users at large without permission of copyright holders using so-called “file-exchange software” which enables Internet users to exchange data by directly transmitting and receiving them between users’ computers connected to the Internet.

LinkDiscuss (Thanks, Yuichi!)