Winny File-Sharer Busted Over Child Porn

Downloading real-life child porn is obviously not a bright idea, in this day and age; but outright sharing it over a public peer-to-peer network must be over 9000 times more idiotic. That is, unless you happen to be a fan of dropping the soap in the prison showers. Which might just explain why Tomokazu Kurata, a 33-year-old from Okayama, Japan gladly accepted the charges brought against him, of having publicly displayed obscene videos of young girls.



The story, as relayed today by Mainichi Daily News, notes that the tool used by Kurata to expand and share his loli collection was Winny - that dreadful P2P program which had already compromised several anime file-sharers in years past (they never learn...). The proverbial nails to his coffin were two videos that he registered in Winny's cache folder and made available to the general public on July 15.

Of course, these were just the tip of the iceberg, as police found "70,000 to 80,000 adult images, child porn videos and similar files collected through Winny" on Kurata's computer. "Investigators are analyzing the files", the article amusingly concludes. I would sure hate to be one of those cops who has to sift through all that despicable garbage right now... Oh, wait, I wouldn't.

Meanwhile, photos of nude children are legally being sold in Akihabara under the pretext of artistic betterment, and with an open challenge to Agnes Chan: "Bring it on, Agn*s!"