Free Isamu Kaneko WebsiteIsamu Kaneko, a very well-known software engineer and a research associate of Tokyo university, was arrested for creating a P2P software called 'Winny.' 'Winny' supports anonymous bulletin board and file-sharing.
Creating file-sharing software is completely legal in Japan. Therefore, the police are justifying his arrest by alleging he 'assisted' two people who illegally uploaded copyrighted materials using 'Winny'. This kind of manipulation of the law is a very serious threat to our freedom and rights.
Isamu was arrested May 10, 2004 in Tokyo, by Kyoto prefectural police. He is still under detention is yet to be charged
http://www.freekaneko.com/en/index.htmlIsamu Kaneko experimentally created 'Winny' which has more efficiency than previous anonymous P2P software such as Freenet. Winny has anonymous efficient file-sharing feature. Winny was getting very famous with helps of websites or books which teach how to use, although Winny was made for a research purpose and usage is very difficult for normal users.
On May 11th, we started to accept a bank transfer for support him. We raised an enormous 10million yen ($100,000) in 10days. This amount of money shows how many people are really concerning about the issue.
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