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Japan arrests four over satellite porn
October 21, 2004
Tokyo - Japanese police have arrested four people for allegedly using overseas
satellite broadcasts to beam pornography into the country.
The suspects include the 38-year-old president of a firm selling satellite
broadcast reception devices, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Thursday. He and
three associates were arrested for displaying obscene images and for violating
a law on the safe use of electrical goods.
This is reportedly Japan's first arrest over satellite broadcast pornography.
According to investigators, between March 2003 and June 2004 the four sold
foreign satellite reception devices and parabolic antennas that were not
certified by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Between March and July this year, they broadcast pornographic images from a
Philippine broadcasting facility to a private communications satellite in
Indonesia, the report said.
The group had signed up about 52 users in Japan to view the images, police
said.
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