Translated from: http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2008/05/09/19494.html http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2008/05/13/19534.html I can't guarantee that everything is translated accurately, interpret at your own risk/leisure. -- "First arrests for copyright violations with Share" The Association of Copyright for Computer Software (ACCS) announced arrest of three Share users on May 9th, on suspicion of copyright violation. There has been previous arrests on file sharing software abuse before with WinMX and Winny, but it's a first for Share. on the same day, the arrests from Kyoto Police High Tech Criminal department was a 34 year old salaryman from Kawasaki (Kanagawa prefecture), 41 year old salaryman from Hino (Tokyo prefecture), and a 21 year old university student from Higashihiroshima (Hiroshima prefecture). The three men has uploaded large quantities of anime, and became a topic on 2ch. The man from Kawasaki uploaded second episode of Code Geass on April 13th. This man deals mainly in anime, and is able to upload shortly after broadcast. Two years worth of data were found on the PC that the police confiscated. The man from Hino uploaded Gundam 00 episode 25 on April 1st. The man from Higashihiroshima uploaded the same thing on April 6th. They confessed that they continued uploading because they were glad that other Share users were happy. -- "Even after first arrests for share, node count did not change significantly" NetAgent announced on May 13, the number of nodes on Share network before and after the arrest on May 9. Regarding this incident this time, there has not been significant changes According to an investigation system that NetAgent developed in-house, they were able to to measure the number of machines running Share. The result of which, during Golden Week (April 26 to May 6), they observed about 170000 nodes average per day. Using this, on May 9, the day of the incident, they observed 156400 nodes. The weekend after, it was 170652 nodes on the 10th, 177188 nodes on the 11th, and 152172 after the weekend on the 12th. They estimate about the same amount after reporting the incident. Regarding this research, NetAgent concluded that "most Share users use it for downloading purposes only", and "up until now, there has been no arrests on users who use Share mainly for downloads", hence not a major change in the usage.