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Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders — anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring
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Recently, the Kyoto Prefectural Police caught one of the initial-seeders of the well-known Japanese torrent website Nyaa.
CODA's description of only having "[analyzed] how data moves through torrent sites, such as index sites and tracker sites" is vague and can be parsed in a number of ways.
The show that reportedly got Ono nailed was Midnight Taxi, a 2026 Japanese drama produced by NHK and WOWOW.
The process started in 2021 when CODA first launched its Cross-Border Enforcement Project, aiming to identify Nyaa's uploaders.
Furthermore, Japanese law generally frowns on non-targeted data monitoring, meaning that techniques like Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and traffic volume monitoring likely weren't used, at least until such time as Ono was identified.