Man Arrested for Uploading "Sankarea" & "Eureka Seven: AO"

Another unemployed man's miserable crime

November 01, 2012 1:00am EDT (10/31/12)

On October 30th, Hiroshima Prefectural Police arrested a 45-year-old unemployed man from Miyoshi-city, Hiroshima, on suspicion of using Share file-sharing software to upload the episodes of the TV anime series Sankarea and Eureka Seven:AO to the internet without the permission from the copyright holders in June and August this year. According to the police, the suspect has admitted his guilt and said that he wanted people to know his favorite anime and have uploaded them repeatedly for a few years. The police found 6,300 files including anime titles in his PC.

Source: Mainichi

Sankarea image © Mitsuru Hattori/Kodansha/Sankarea Production Committee

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