Japan's Kyoto District Court has sentenced 39-year-old Shōji Sakai to a one-year prison sentence and a three-year suspended sentence on Friday for distributing anime on the Winny file-sharing network.
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(Chatsworth, CA) The Animation Co-Op Defense League (ACDL), a consortium of Adult Animation Distributors & Studio's, is pleased to announce they have made significant progress in their efforts to educate and combat the proliferation of web sites illegally hosting and offering for sale selling unlicensed content which is owned by the major Animation studios.
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Said Crawford, “Every day we speak with web sites, tube sites, and affiliate programs, who have knowingly or unknowingly displayed content that they do not have the rights for. We have discovered that some of them were misinformed and want to legally comply with the Co-Op's members to obtain legitimate licenses to resell the material. This year alone we have already taken down a total of 10,738 infringers, including: 5006 Movie file-sharing links, 2123 Picture file-sharing links and 3609 Blog posts.
"Better than free" beating P2P in Japan - 0 views
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Japanese Panel Pushes Ban on Illegal Downloads Forward - 0 views
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However, it was noted at the meeting that users might visit a site that happens to have unauthorized material, and therefore run afoul of the revised law without realizing it.
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So it would be illegal to even visit a site that hosts such material? Sounds rather draconian, not to mention unenforcable.
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Laywer explains some legal aspects of torrent downloads - 0 views
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Darren S. Cahr is a partner with Drinker Biddle (that's Drinker Biddle Gardner Carton if you're in Chicago, like Darren is) and "In 2006, he was selected by his peers as one of "Illinois' Super Lawyers" for intellectual property in a survey conducted by Chicago magazine and Law & Politics magazine." That makes him, at least for our purposes, Super Lawyer. He also is an expert on how peer-to-peer (torrents to the layman) intersects with Intellectual Property law.