P2P software developer reprieved in Japan
06 January 2012
Peter Ollier, Hong Kong
The Supreme Court of Japan has upheld a lower court decision to find the creator of peer-to-peer file sharing software Winny not guilty of abetting copyright infringement
The decision ends a seven-year ordeal for Isamu Kaneko, a former researcher at Tokyo University, who was arrested in May 2004 by the Kyoto prefectural police and found guilty by the city's District Court in December 2006.
"We are very relieved," said Takanori Abe, a partner of Abe Law & Patent firm in Osaka, who was part of the team that advised Kaneko on his defence.
"The District Court decision was bad for software engineers here and for Japan's international reputation."
Kaneko developed the...
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