On Thursday, the Kyoto Prefectural Police's High-Tech Crime Task Force has added more charges to the two men accused of uploading anime videos without authorization onto the Winny file-sharing network in Japan. The two men are Shōji Sakai, a 39-year-old company employee from Sakai City in the central Japanese metropolitan area of Osaka, and Katsuhisa Ikema, a 35-year-old unemployed man from Amagasaki City in the nearby prefecture of Hyogo. The police say that Sakai violated Japan's Copyright Law by uploading around 5,700 episodes from about 230 titles from the fall of 2003 until this past January. The authorities further allege that Ikema uploaded around 3,500 episodes from about 170 titles in the same timeframe. For example, the two are accused of uploading the second episode of the Kimikiss pure rouge anime series on October 14 of last year. According to an affidavit, the two are said to have performed these alleged actions because they "wanted to be appreciated [by the users.]"
I hope these weren't the guys uploading One Piece. :sad: