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Naming a cult on media is a taboo in Japan, for fear of retaliations and verbal abuses than as common courtesy.

There even used to be a P2P app called Perfect Dark, known in a... different... name early on, so as to make it 'immune to police prosecution'. Eventually the name changed to what it is, and stories of police working on it did start appearing. That was 2010s.



What was the previous name of Perfect Dark?


it was called "Share" and before that there was WinNy, a fork of the WinMX p2p client.


It was a four letter name that I’m not comfortable posting here…


Sorry, I don't understand. Why is it uncomfortable to name a piece of software?


Oh no. I failed to include that part in the original comment. The logic was that the name(think “LordVoldemort.exe”) cannot be aired or published, so authorities cannot communicate arrests to the public, which makes it moot to do so, thereby shielding the users.


So would something bad happen if you posted the name..?


Perfect dark still exists.




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