Man Arrested For Posting Story About China Invading Japan

UK Inquirer
Nov. 29, 2005

JAPANESE ROZZERS have nabbed a computer programmer for publishing a fabricated news article on a fake Yahoo Japan Web site.

The story saying China had invaded the Japanese island of Okinawa was posted by Takahiro Yamamoto.

What seems to have attracted the attention of Inspector Knacker of Okinawa was that Yamamoto copied the style of the Kyodo News Agency and Yahoo Japan's news site which was a breach of trademark rules.

Apparently the site got 66,000 hits and Yahoo and the news agency complained.

Japanese police took the opportunity to confiscate Yamamoto's PC to have a look at the data stored in it. It should have been pointed out to them that the website was probably on a webserver well away from his PC.














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