Japanese PD Uploader Arrested

The Kyoto High-Tech Crime Task Force yesterday arrested a Japanese man suspected of uploading anime episodes, including episodes of the current Fullmetal Alchemist television series, to the internet without authorization via the Perfect Dark peer-to-peer file sharing program. The arrest represents the first suspect accused of illegally uploading via the Perfect Dark program. The Perfect Dark file sharing program was launched in early 2007 as a successor to earlier Japanese peer-to-peer file sharing programs Winny and Share, which had been discovered to have security vulnerabilities.

Japanese copyright law has long criminalized the unauthorized upload of copyrighted material to the internet. A new Japanese law criminalizing the knowing download of copyrighted material took effect on January 1, 2010.

Source: Anime News Network