Grad Student Accused of Creating ‘Anime Virus’
Remember way back when, and a bunch of sites reported on a virus that featured an image from Lucky Star and the words (in Japanese): “Wait a minute. You rascally otaku! should I silence your P2P?” Yes? No? Here.
The guy who made it, 24-year-old Masato Natsukuji, was arrested a while back and has now been charged with the crime. Natsukuji is a graduate student at Osaka Denki Tsuushin Daigaku (Osaka Telecommunications University)…or was, since he’s been suspended indefinitely. His first public hearing is in 18 days at the Kyoto District Court.
It looks like this is the first time that a virus creator has been charged with criminal liability in Japan, according to the Yomiuri.
The next part of the article I’m not 100% sure about, but it sounds like Natsukuji created the virus in response to an escalating flame war on an unnamed message board.
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