Japan: False arrest, new strategy

Posted 25 January 2008 6:19 GMT

Countries	Japan
Topics	Governance, Law, Technology, Media & Journalism

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Japan

Shisaku despairs at the arrest of Nakatsuji Masato, allegedly for programming a virus when in fact there are no laws against virus creation in Japan. The arrest is connected to a new campaign by the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry, who has placed ads in trains and on TV featuring Ueto Aya in a Sherlock Holmes outfit encouraging better computer security to combat copyright infringement.

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