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A man in Sendai was arrested recently for making the U.S. film “Wanted” available on the Internet to users of the file-sharing software Winny before its official release in Japan. It’s one of the few cases I can recall of someone actually being arrested for such an offense. At the root of it, of course, is the movie industry’s attempt to clamp down on piracy or unauthorized copying of their films. Whenever you go... [read full story]