– Technology & Media – International Herald Tribune:

A court in western Japan fined the developer of a free file-sharing software called Winny for helping to violate copyright laws with his program, a court official said Wednesday.

The Kyoto District Court ordered Isamu Kaneko, a former instructor at the prestigious University of Tokyo who developed the software, to pay a fine of 1.5 million yen (US$12,850; €9,700), court official Hirotoshi Shimada said.