The Kyoto Police’s High Tech Crime Unit have arrested 38-year-old Kawasaki City resident Hidetoshi Fukuzawa for illegally sharing an erotic game via the internet.
“I downloaded it,” he stated. “but I didn’t leak this onto the internet.” File sharing is illegal in Japan.
Using an online file sharing service called “Share”, the title was leaked to countless users. Described as a “game depicting violent sex”, the title had its in-game mosaic removed and is believed to be banned raped title Rapelay.
The suspect works in the Japanese sex industry.
性暴力ゲーム、無修正で流す＝川崎市の男逮捕−京都府警 [jiji via 2ch]
Brady
Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 9:31 PMFile sharing is illegal in Japan….something about that statment just seems wrong.
ViceOfFire
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 5:56 AMIt’s very true actually. Japan has some of the strictest filesharing policies, which can send you to prison easily.