May 20, 2007
Manga-scans Uploaders Arrested in Japan
According to Japan’s Association of Copyright for Computer Software, the Kyoto Prefectural Police’s High-Tech Crime Task Force and other cooperating authorities arrested three male suspects in Tokyo, Morioka, and Osaka, and searched their homes on May 18 for unauthorized file-sharing of manga. The suspects allegedly scanned and uploaded images of Weekly Shonen Jump and Weekly Shonen Sunday manga magazines on the Winny peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
