Hidetoshi Fukuzawa is a leecher, and got arrested for it. He just selfishly downloaded the recently killed “rape game” Rapelay, and didn’t bother to share with the rest of the internets.
It wasn’t the fact that he had an illegal game in his possession that got him in trouble, but it was the mere fact that he downloaded it.
You see…file sharing is illegal in Japan. They even have a special “High Tech Crine Unit” in Kawasaki City (neighborhood of Kyoto). I can only imagine that the police crashed into his home like Major Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell or with a tank from Dominion Tank Police. I love anime, it’s given me such skewed views of life in Japan.
I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for.
It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are.
I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own.
It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.