Japan to ban internet users for file sharing

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)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Peter

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?

Probably because they can't read latin alphabets. EBERITINGU MASUTO BUI WURITEN IN ZA KATAKANA.

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