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'Anonymous' P2P network--users arrested

CNETAsia Staff | December 3, 2003 6:48 PM PST

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A Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network which claimed to keep user identities untraceable has failed to work--two users in Japan have been arrested. The developer of the P2P software has also had his home searched by police, according to a report in the Mainichi Daily.

There are around a quarter of a million users of the supposedly anonymous file-trading network, called Winny, which rides on the more well-known Freenet network. Read the full story from CNETAsia.

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