Nov 28 2001

Busted for Using WinMX in Japan



“Two students were arrested on suspicion of the violation of the Copyright Act (infringement of a public transmitting right) as having exchanged business software with file exchange software ‘WinMX‘ (or it having changed into the exchangeable state).”
Raw news (in japanese) | English (just push cancel on the language packs and give it a while to load)

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