[pchelpers] News:Japan cracks down on hacker with copyright law

By Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press
TOKYO — A student who allegedly spread a computer virus was convicted
Friday of copyright infringement in a case that has highlighted the lack
of laws in Japan to police cyberspace.

Masato Nakatsuji, 24, a graduate student at Osaka Electro-Communication
University, was charged with maliciously spreading a virus by embedding
it in an image from a Japanese animation film he illegally copied and
distributed.


The virus he allegedly used, the "Harada virus," is one of Japan's top
viruses, and Nakatsuji's arrest in January was the first in Japan
involving the making or spreading of viruses.

Downloading the Harada virus and the image destroyed data on victims'
computers and moved information stored on their computers onto the
Internet, according to police.


Nakatsuji was found guilty in Kyoto District Court Friday and received a
suspended sentence of three years.

More here:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/wormsviruses/2008-05-21-japan-copyright-law_N.htm
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