Anime Uploader Thrown In Jail

The legal saga of one of the anime uploaders busted back in January - the one who was charged with uploading around 5,700 episodes over a four years time frame - seems to have come to an end. At least for now. Picking up an article from the Japanese publication Kyoto Shimbun, ANN reports that the unlucky uploader was sentenced to 1 year in prison (plus a 3 years suspended sentence), for his copyright-infringing crimes against humanity.

"Judge Kouji Shibata [of Japan's Kyoto District Court] said he considered the criminal liability of the defendant to be high since Sakai [the uploader] was distributing unauthorized videos on a daily basis. Judge Shibata explained his stiff sentence (...) by saying that the crime was "terrible" since the copyright infringements "cannot be reversed"."

In other anti-news, Japan's Copyright Law is still allowing people to download pirated animes for private use. And, let's not forget, to posses any kind of virtual child porn. And my obaa-san still can't figure out why I'm dying to move there.