Man found guilty of copyright violations

[mark_15]

japantoday The Kyoto District Court on Wednesday found a former researcher at the University of Tokyo who developed the Winny anonymous file-sharing software program guilty of assisting users in copyright violations through peer-to-peer online file exchanges, and sentenced him to a fine of 1.5 million yen. Read more... (http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/393256)

[Yujin]

This is a landmark decision where a client-P2P program developer actually got convicted and sentenced to a fine. Lucky him there is no prison term to serve. 150万円 wouldnt be that hard for this guy to cough up considering the benefits he reaped from the "Winny" program he created. I heard he got lots of job offers to work at big IT firms, he even published a series of books about the program and the technology used, all because of the client program he created.
All these(court, sentence) hoopla doesnt matter though and i dont see this to have any effect in detering users from firing up their P2P client engines, the program is already out there anyway and it would require a mighty task(perhaps mission impossible) to stop internet users from using them.
In addition, another technology, that one which sounds like a unit in physics :D is starting to crawl its way to japanese internet users machines and would soon become more popular than winny, i bet ;)