Police have arrested two men for sharing sexually explicit videos featuring under-age participants over the eMule P2P network, the first such arrests for using an international P2P network in Japan.
The two suspects, salarymen aged 27 and 37, shared various videos, featuring participants “around the age of ten”.
“They knew both that the videos were illegal, and that they were providing them to overseas users” police say.
Police are pursuing an investigation into those with whom they shared the videos, but admit that assembling a case may be difficult due to the international nature of the transfers and the need to cooperate closely with police overseas.
The arrests are on charges of providing the illegal materials (or possessing with intent to supply), rather than for the newly introduced crime of “simple possession”.
This is said to be part of a wider international police operation, involving police from 74 countries, focused on the network; whether the Japanese police were the primary instigators of these arrests seems unclear.
Via Yomiuri.
Leaving aside the question of their alleged offences, for which they will likely receive little sympathy, this highlights the inferiority of many P2P networks popular internationally, in that they support minimal to no encryption, and have non-robust architectures.
eMule is a particular offender in this regard, having no real encryption support and an architecture which relies on public servers; similar criticisms might be leveled at Bittorrent.
Thus they are essentially able to exist only because of the relative indifference of law enforcement.
The three Japanese P2P networks, Winny, Share and Perfect Dark, all stand in stark contrast, being engineered with complete anonymity in mind; arrests have only followed after the first two have been years out of development.
Japanese users will doubtless reconsider using the international networks after these arrests, even if they do possess impressive size.
Man this is stupid, they should just get the guys who are having the actual sex.
Just letting yall know… they did arest someone for l♥♥i i n the us. and it is soon going to be illegal because it is still images of underage characters. drawn or not.
So watch out and start lookin at normal porn lol.
that was a interesting (maybe), but CP illegal is a right thing.
mind I ask something, beside lolicon, is there are any other -con?
no it’s not right thing! It’s only right thing, if it is without boths consent! And the lie that any underage CAN’T give consent is bullshit!
“r♥♥e” for all ages is wrong, and this is the right way, no other!
shotacon, toddlercon
Mazacon.
am i the only one who cares?
they need to start putting the web pages for these vids in the article!
also: what is p2p?
p2p is peer to peer. Think Kazaa, Limewire,and Bittorrent.
Might I suggest you use Google or Wikipedia to find out for yourself?
Humm, I was a little confused when reading. I haven’t clear if it was Real CP or just 2D lolicon.
IMO, lolicon shouldn’t be illegal if the general 2D ero is not.
CP is sick, not like 3D porn, so must be illegal anywhere. But when is 2D I don’t see the problem .-.