There are those who still see this issue as an attempt of futile resistance by users of Winny. We think they are mistaken. What the police and the rightholders -- ie. the television and publishing industries -- want is a precedent. If the court rules 47 as guilty, it could very become a carte blanche for all sorts of unlawful arrests to follow. For instance:
-Contributory infringement for operating a bulletin board with image upload capabilities -Contributory infringement for linking to an image-centric site -Contributory infringement for explaining steps for decrypting DVDs -Contributory infringement for linking to software which are capable of decrypting DVDs -Contributory infringement for failing to delete posts of the aforementioned sort, even in bulletin boards without image upload capabilities -Contributory infringement for voicing objections against current copyright law (This was the reason of 47's arrest)
If this happens, this site certainly wouldn't be safe either. Many image and graphics-based content, especially, may be eradicated. Little guarantee would remain for freedom of speech or thought.
There are those who argue for superfluous rights for themselves, through deliberate misinterpretation and abuse of copyright law for their own interests. We think there needs to be a stop for these kinds of reckless acts.
There are those who still see this issue as an attempt of futile resistance by users of Winny. We think they are mistaken. What the police and the rightholders -- ie. the television and publishing industries -- want is a precedent. If the court rules 47 as guilty, it could very well become a carte blanche for all sorts of unlawful arrests to follow. For instance:
-Contributory infringement for operating a bulletin board with image upload capabilities -Contributory infringement for linking to an image-centric site -Contributory infringement for explaining steps for decrypting DVDs -Contributory infringement for linking to software capable of decrypting DVDs -Contributory infringement for failing to delete bulletin board posts of the aforementioned sort, even in boards without image upload capabilities -Contributory infringement for voicing objections against current copyright law (This was the reason for 47's arrest)
If this happens, this site certainly wouldn't be safe either. Many image and graphics-based content, especially, may be eradicated, and little guarantee would remain for freedom of speech or thought.
There are those who argue for superfluous rights for themselves, through deliberate misinterpretation and abuse of copyright law for their own interests. We think there needs to be a stop for these kinds of reckless acts.
"Winny is a file sharing software aiming to accomplish high throughput and annonymity, with simple Bullitain Board System.
Winny2 enables mass-scale Bullitain Board System in addition to the functions of Winny.
Be aware that I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEMS raising while your beta testing. DO NOT USE THESE SOFTWARE FOR ILLEAGAL SHARING OF FILES. You should reproduce or link etc. according your common sense."
Introduction of Winny Winny provides three key features, such as protect users privacy, better file transfer speed, and increased accessibility of downloadable files. "47" who has developed Winny for research of new P2P file sharing technology from two years ago. And It was released as free software.After the release, The number of Winny users has grown drastically, from 0.5 million to 1 million in 2years Since Winny was originally developed with a Japanese GUI,users are limitted in Japan now Even Though the author had said to the user in his website " Do not use Winny for illegal sharing of files", many users took advantage of anonymity for their illegal activities The police arressted author because officials believed he developed winny for illigal file sharing. The officials seized the source code as well as other inforamtion related to the development of Winny. Therefore, people are no longer able to update Winny.
English version of Winny just released. However, Sanpu-Shokunin has posted a patch to localize WINNY for English speaking users on the internet. By applying this patch, people can now use WINNY in English.
Compare with other major P2P file sharing softwares. Protection of privacy for Winny user is not so perfect as Freenet.However Winny is the 2nd place in the field of privacy protection of users. No work can be performed only in Freenet.Freenet system is complicated and its CPU load is high But Winny is simple,CPU load is lower than freenet,and the transfer speed of a file is much higher than freenet. Bittorent perform more transfer speed than Winny.But user's privacy is open to the other person in the network. eDonkey may be can more easily obtain target file than winny.However, the transmission speed of eDonkey is so late compared with Winny and no privacy protection.
"Clusterization" is the unique idea of Winny, and it has done in order to raise the ease of obtaining of a file. The Winny users which exist in near in the network connect each other mutually. Since there is no central server in Winny network, file information is not manageable unitary. Winny has taken the method of collecting file information from surrounding users. However, if the scale of a network becomes large, the exchange infomations with a long distance users will become difficult. For solution of this problem,Winny will divide group of users who like same kind of files called "cluster". If you join right claster,You may obtain files more easily.