Japan to ban internet users for file sharing

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Let me paint a picture for you: lately I've been playing the MMO Eve Online. I've been a member of the Something Awful alliance Goonswarm practically since I've started playing, and for about a year Goonswarm has formed a powerbloc lead by Goonswarm, Red Alliance, and Tau Ceti Confederation, the latter two being Russian and French alliances, respectively.

Very few French and Russian players speak English fluently, but we've still formed a stunted system of English words for basic communication. If somebody in any alliance needs something from somebody else the message is conveyed within context.

This happens all the time in international filesharing networks. People already know what they want, and can inform each other about how to get it fairly simply.

Of course, even with all of that aside, it's not like there aren't language packs for any of these programs.

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

Your Japanese apologetics are pathetic. Japanese consumers had the chance to enjoy Western video games when Microsoft attempted to market the Xbox to Japan. Where was the language barrier?

How hard do you think it is to translate between English and Russian? Granted, Russians tend to stay in their own communities out of ease, but when it comes to file sharing they have no qualms with using bittorent or other networks.

You can't wave away a culture which has encouraged myopia and isolationism for over a thousand years with a language barrier. A culture in which English instruction is mandatory.

And no, Japanezeshorty is American, ethnic Japanese. We have posters from all over the world, and almost none of them are Japanese.

Let's rephrase this in the context of an American site. If an American internet community denied membership to non-Americans, it would be appropriately ostracized and ridiculed. Yet 2chan is emulated.

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

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Look, this messageboard was founded by Americans with a heavy skew towards Japanese culture. We're not the norm. For the most part, people of different nationalities do tend to stay within their own groups. Have you been to Chinese forums? Indonesian forums? Swedish forums? The language barrier works both ways, you know. "Not using the English language" does not equate to "myopia and isolationism".

I couldn't give a fuck about some Nipponjin gobbledy-gook that I can't read.

The point is that the Japanese using their own networks outside of the wider filesharing networks can't be explained away with a language barrier, because for some reason, the Russians, using a cyrillic alphabet are perfectly fine with using international filesharing networks.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by LeHah

Hey, my grandfather created computer networks to keep it out of the hands of those commie bastards!

на носу, фашистской свинье

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Golly, why would they ever want to expand their resources from hundreds of thousands to millions of people? Man explain to me why this is so hard to understand.

Downloads at 1 mbps!? well I never

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I don't know anything about Russian, so I won't comment on that, but it just happens to be easier for Europeans to browse English websites, because of linguistic similarities, than it is for the Japanese, who's closest linguistic link to the West is Turcic.

The cyrillic alphabet derives from a completely different language tree compared to most other European languages. It's very difficult to learn for non-Russian speakers, the same as it is to learn Japanese.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Since you're so obssessed with BT, ever been to DMHY? Or Greedland? These are just some of the Chinese bittorrent networks that predominantly focus on Japanese media, and they frequently get crossposted to Western trackers. In case you're wondering, yes, a lot of the sharers there are Japanese too.

Right, so because seeders get crossposted from Chinese trackers, that makes them internationalists.

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Also 1mbps seems a little slow, how about 100mbps?

Is that intra-Japan or internet? Because one is more relevant to what I meant than the other.

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