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Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Oct 12 01:57:04 UTC 2009


"Anonymity is not something to be looked upon as illegal."

>From (an English-language rendering of) a decision by the Osaka,
Japan, High Court, overturning the conviction on a charge of aiding
and abetting copyright-infringement and other forms of
intellectual-property theft against a software developer who had
written and distributed software that enabled anonymous sharing of
files downloaded from the Web.

The author had given his app the apparently-Japlish name of "Winny."

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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