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?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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).

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Winny copiers to be cut off from Internet

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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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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

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!)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Little Shithead

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.

FELIPE NO

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by nanaman

Kawaii is not a noun.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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:

Dear XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Rogers Cable (Rogers) has received a notice stating that activities associated with your IP address are infringing copyright in material(s) owned or exclusively licensed by others.

The full notice is appended to this e-mail below.

Under section 4(d) of the Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet End User Agreement (EUA) and Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), you are prohibited from using the Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet service to engage in illegal activities, including activities that infringe copyright. Copies of our EUA and AUP are available at:

http://na.edit.client.yahoo.com/roge...terms&.intl=ca

Where there has been a violation of our EUA and/or AUP, including the unauthorized distribution of copyright-protected material, Rogers has the right to take appropriate action against you.

If you have any questions about the attached copyright notice, please contact the sender of the notice using the contact information provided in the notice. Please do not reply to this e-mail.

We trust you will comply with our policies and all applicable laws in using the Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet service.

Rogers EUA Management Team
Sincerely,

EUA Management Team
Rogers Yahoo Hi-Speed Internet

http://na.edit.client.yahoo.com/roge...ic?.form=terms
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Originally Posted by Little Shithead

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by nanaman

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!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Little Shithead

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

FELIPE NO

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

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.

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)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by eriol33

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."

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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

FELIPE NO

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?

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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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.