Legal Issues
- On 1 January 2010, a more stringent copyright law went into effect in Japan that rendered the intentional unauthorized download of copyrighted material illegal, even for private use. Japanese authorities have not arrested any person responsible for illegal downloading yet, but have arrested a number of people accused of uploading copyrighted material.
- A Perfect Dark user was arrested for the first time on 27 January 2010. The user had been uploading and sharing an episode of the Japanese animation TV series Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood with Perfect Dark and was charged with breach of copyright law.
- On 10 June 2010, a second user, a 43-year-old man, was arrested on the suspicion of uploading roughly one thousand copyrighted files including the Big Windup! anime series.
- On 8 October 2010, a 42-year-old woman was arrested for uploading the Mitsudomoe anime TV series.
- On 11 April 2013, a 39-year-old man from Kasuga City was arrested for downloading copyrighted material from Kadokawa Shoten, Nintendo and manga creator Hideaki Sorachi.
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