"Double Tap" <xring@email.com> wrote in message news:<j3Nyb.368$Oe5.48@newsread2.news.atl.earthlin k.net>...
I myself don't know much about this program , or the controversy
surrounding it , it looks to me like they were caught through a
message board feature rather than the p2p feature.

But who knows more about this program ?


This is taken from a poster on slashdot ,
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/12/04...tid=158&tid=99


Winny version 2 also includes an anonymous message board system, a bit
like Frost's TOF; Due to the original Winny's immense popularity, The
Winny message board became a lively place of discussion, also often
used to request and announce up/download of illegal files.

Presumably, it was this that the Japanese police used. Due to the way
Winny implements the anonymous message board, reading and posting in
the threads are anonymous, but creating a new thread is not. Both of
the two people arrested were thread creators, and they announced the
upload of files in their threads. As this was not anonymous, the
police probably traced them using this.

Any additions/corrections from Japanese Winny users are welcome