A 31-year old unemployed Japanese man by the name of Shuichiro Tanaka has admitted to uploading 3 TV-shows and sharing 165 more on BitTorrent after he was arrested by Tokyo Police’s Cyber Crime unit and charged with copyright infringement. In his confession, the man told the investigators that he used BitTorrent because he believed it was free of viruses and police monitoring while stating that he shared the shows for those that missed them due to prior commitments.

The arrest is the first in Japan as a result of the of the use of the BitTorrent P2P file transfer protocol, which has seen increased adoption in Japan in the millions of users in the last few years as a result of similar arrests due to the use of the locally prevalent and popular P2P programs such as Share, Winny and Perfect Dark which are commonly used to share anime, manga and feature films amongst other types of information.

[via TorrentFreak]