What You Need to Know:
- On 19th October, a Japanese salary man was arrested for copyright law violation charges, after uploading 3 episodes of One Piece to the P2P file-sharing platform, "Share".
- According to the police, the man plead guilty to the crime and "was aware that what he was doing was illegal, however, [he] didn't think he'd get caught because everyone else was doing it too."
Source: Sanspo
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How come Himawari Douga hasn't been taken down yet?
"didn't think he'd get caught because everyone else was doing it too." What? Many people have been caught uploading on Share.
He uploaded it from home? What an idiot.
It's funny that none of the comments bash the act of "uploading" itself.
[balloon_speech align="left" text="Interesting..." image="bee-happy1"]
[balloon_speech align="right" text="I wonder how heavy the punishment will be?" image="honey-happy1"]
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