Man Arrested for Sharing R**elay

Japanese police have arrested a man for sharinga violation game on P2P networks, thought to be Rapelay, though they claim to be motivated by his sharing of an uncensored version of the game.

Kyoto police’s high tech crimes unit, who have a reputation for attacking P2P, arrested the Kawasaki resident, a 38-year-old brothel employee, on charges of distributing indecent material.

He is accused of using the “Share” anonymous P2P network to distribute “a game depicting sexual violence, with the mosaic removed,” charges which he denies, saying “I downloaded it, but I wasn’t sharing it.”

The ostensible reason for his arrest was the lack of censorship on the game.

Although the title is not specified, an “uncensored” version would likely be either an international release or a hacked 3D game, such as Rapelay, and reports speak of a game involving molesting women on a train…

Japan’s farcical laws against pornography, a holdover from General MacArthur’s efforts to impose good Christian morals on the deviant nation, require genitals to be hidden in most adult material, usually accomplished by way of the hated mosaic or censor bar.

The ambiguous and selectively enforced rules on this appear mostly to be used to keep unruly or unlucky producers and viewers in line, and are routinely flouted…

Via Jiji.

Observers will of course be wondering whether this is related to efforts crack down on the evils of eroge, efforts to crack down on the evils of P2P, or efforts to crack down on the evils of unmosaiced sex…