Posted by Hemos on Monday May 10, 2004 @04:47AM from the cracking-down-on-the-software dept. News for nerds writes "The author of Winny, the Japanese P2P software with encrypted networking capability, similar to Freenet, has been today officially arrested for abetment of copyright violation, after the raid in the last December. He started its development in May 2002 and occasionally appeared on th