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Japan to ban internet users for file sharing

Japanese ISPs To Ban File Sharers

All I have to say is God DAMN it. If US and other nations follow suit, I'll be quite upset. Do you think this will happen here? If so, what things do you think will be private enough to get away with? mIRC? FTP's? Or will we have to resort to something else? Or will we actually have to stop file sharing?

This is pretty damn crazy. Definitely raised my brows once I saw it.

If anyone had the balls to take this up in the states, it'd be Comcast. Christ, I hate those guys...

Anyhow, it seems pretty radical. Hope this doesn't affect how I get my animu (raws are often recordings off TV, remember).

Winny copiers to be cut off from Internet

At least they're not suing kids and grandmothers for a bazillion dollars

I heard about this before but I didn't think they'd actually go through with it. This may hurt the file sharing crowd over there for a little while, but I'm sure they'll find someway around it. They always do.

As far as getting raws for anime or manga (or J-pop or what have you) is concerned, there's always IRC. No one ever goes after that.

The action still has to be initiated by the copyright holders or some enforcement agency. The ISP then sends a warning to the offender, and if successive warnings are not complied with, they cut the internet service.

And this differs from current procedure.... how?

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Originally Posted by Bigblah (Post 583741)

And this differs from current procedure.... how?

Because it's Japan, the land of constant happiness, kawaii and schoolgirls.

Doing something so mean and cruel is so very un-Japan-like! The Japanese are supposed to be such nice people.

It's something you'd only expect to see in America (but we're too free to do that!)

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Originally Posted by Little Shithead (Post 583749)

Because it's Japan, the land of constant happiness, kawaii and schoolgirls.

Kawaii is not a noun.

Hopefully all this won't affect the manga/anime sharing scene in the future.

If the rest of the file sharing that goes on in the internet is anything to go by, probably not.

Course, the whole being able to see a show before buying it thing is sorta the mutant blood that the anime inudustry doesn't want to admit to having but that's a topic for another thread, another time and quite possibly another board.

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Originally Posted by Source

The process will formally commence in April and will primarily target users of Winny, the most popular file sharing network in Japan.

In my opinion that's so typical Japanese. Concentrating on their own networks (it's about the same with Mixi; a community network similar to MySpace but with, maybe, 98% Japanese users only). Time to look for something more international, guys. :p

Targeting Winny has already disrupted the distribution of high-quality Gundam 00...

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Originally Posted by nanaman (Post 583770)

Kawaii is not a noun.

THE POINT

YOUR HEAD

I thought it was painfully obvious to everyone here that I know and am studying Japanese.

If you're interested on how the ISP respond to the users currently, I actually got an email not long ago for downloading off BT. Well, not me but someone using the web in my household.

Long email:

Spoiler:

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Originally Posted by Little Shithead (Post 583805)

I thought it was painfully obvious to everyone here that I know and am studying Japanese.

Uh, how about, no? I'm not lurking around here 24/7.

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Originally Posted by nanaman (Post 583812)

Uh, how about, no? I'm not lurking around here 24/7.

Well, it's a good thing I don't even need to lurk for 10 minutes to know that you can't understand sarcasm and humor!

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Originally Posted by Little Shithead (Post 583814)

Well, it's a good thing I don't even need to lurk for 10 minutes to know that you can't understand sarcasm and humor!

Since when was sarcasm easily detected on the net? Since NEVER :tpg:

I never really expected Japan to be so retarded. And that the recording industry was behind it only enforces further that I will not buy a single CD ever until they change their ways. I'm already on three years since I bought one and proud of it.

I can't even remember the last time I bought a CD. I love downloading because you can pick the song you like from a album of shitty songs, rather the buy the whole shabang.

I am socked with Japan's move, I am happy with the copyright laws we currently have in Canada, but as long as the U.S copyright laws continue to ban file sharing, Canada may play follow the leader (As long a Steve Harper is in control it may)

The last cd I bought was a OST of DQ8 and that was two years back at least.

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Originally Posted by Source

The process will formally commence in April and will primarily target users of Winny, the most popular file sharing network in Japan.

Oh dear.

Well this is sad news to hear, but I honestly don't think its going to strangle the flow of manga/animation. There are so many ways of getting that kind of information out. Still, sad to hear such restrictions are going up in more places now.

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Originally Posted by Hamu-Sumo (Post 583799)

agreed, japanese for some reason is rather xenophobic when it comes to internet service.

I rarely see japanese use popular internet services such as rapidshare, megaupload, or mediafire. Or maybe I'm just don't know where to find forum like this in japanese sites (the most popular is 2ch, but most of the time they talk about winny):rolleyes:

Maybe it's because the Japanese don't like associating with foreign mouthbreathers?

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Originally Posted by eriol33 (Post 584267)

agreed, japanese for some reason is rather xenophobic when it comes to internet service.

You're close, but I believe what you want to say is "The Japanese are xenophobic... period."

I do have to ponder why they continuously insist on isolating themselves so much.

Hasn't anyone thought that the reason why japanese don't use file sharing programs that are popular in the US because of the language barrier? I mean, the people who look for anime or japanese music using programs in Japanese can basically be counted on one hand, so would you expect anything else from the Japanese who are, even though they like to claim the opposite, hardly be called fluent when it comes to english. I can read anything I want in English, but I still to download my manga in french if possible, it's basically a matter of preference. I laugh at Americans who claim that they are more international just because they visit websites from other countries in English. You don't see an American making an effort to understand a french or a german site, so why would you expect a Japanese to use english networks when they can get everything they want from sites in their own language?

Because English is the International Language?

Because using international filesharing networks vastly expands the pool of resources that are available to them?

The vast majority of people in the world are ok with using English as the basic language for international communication.

Though I'm also willing to bet, that since nerds are already so despised and marginalized in Japan, they're already used to insulating themselves from the larger community.