A professor at Tokyo University has been arrested and charged with copyright offenses after developing a computer program that promises to let users share files anonymously.
Isamu Kaneko, a 33-year-old academic, wrote a file-sharing program called “Winny”. This promises users the ability to share audio and video files through a network built on top of ordinary internet traffic, but without revealing network address of their computer to other users. Kaneko was arrested on suspicion of offering copyrighted material for download through the program himself.
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