[pchelpers] News:Computer virus inventor arrested

The Yomiuri Shimbun

A 24-year-old graduate school student was arrested Thursday on suspicion
of spreading a computer virus on the Internet using copyrighted
animation footage, police said. 

The Kyoto prefectural police searched the home of Masato Nakatsuji, of
Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, and other locations on suspicion of
violating the Copyright Law. 

It is the first time in Japan an inventor of a computer virus has been
arrested. 

According to the police, Nakatsuji, who attends Osaka
Electro-Communication University's graduate school in Osaka Prefecture,
allegedly modified copyrighted animation footage with a computer virus
and distributed the footage to an indefinite number of computers through
the Winny file-sharing software in October and November. 

Nakatsuji admitted creating the virus, the police said. 

More here:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080125TDY02304.htm
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