Legal Issues
Three Japanese people aged 21 to 41 were arrested in Kyoto, Japan on 9 May 2008 for illegally uploading copyrighted files with Share. These were the first Share-related cases in Japan. Nevertheless, a research showed that there was no significant drop of on-line Share users after these arrests.
On 27 November 2008, another male Share user was arrested in Japan for illegally uploading Japanese TV drama with Share.
On 12 February 2009, the first two male Share users were caught for uploading Child pornography with Share.
On 30 September 2009, multiple Japanese media reported that two men were arrested for uploading Nintendo DS game software which include Square Enix's Dragon Quest IX. They are the first users arrested for uploading DS games.
On 30 November 2009, 10 Japanese men and 1 woman were arrested for sharing anime, music, movies, and games. Not all were the original uploaders.
On 31 March 2010, 62-year old Seiji Sato was spotted by a new p2p surveillance software for sharing "Avatar" and other movies.
On 14 January 2011, 18 people were arrested for sharing movies, anime, music, games and software.
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