Japan has decided to beat France and the United Kingdom (both who have similar proposals) to become the first country to ban file sharers from the internet.
Oddly the agreement to do so has not come from the Japanese Government, but from Japan’s four internet service provider organizations after pressure (not surprisingly) from the record and movie industries. According to Torrent Freak, the agreement would see copyright holders tracking down file-sharers on the Internet using “special detection software” and then notifying ISPs of alleged infringers. File sharers will initially receive a warning for a first offense, then be disconnected for subsequent offenses, eventually be disconnected from the internet permanently (it wasn’t clear whether the agreement is a three strikes proposal).
The process will formally commence in April and will primarily target users of Winny, the most popular file sharing network in Japan.
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In Japan Winny is akin to Kazza and most of those in the know use Share or Perfect Dark .
http://en.wikip...org/wiki/Share_(P2P)
http://en.wikip..._Dark_%28P2P%29
And thus began the next phase in the continuing war.
Expect military grade encryption to become the norm and darknets to abound. I wonder if the ISPs will simply make up rules that all encrypted traffic is suspect and then either demand the user prove that they aren’t guilty or be kicked.
another stupid act by japan government who want to block something that is impossible! protect privacy? i don’t think so…
Dude, it’s ISPs, not ISP’s. No possessive or contractive apostrophe is needed.
I agree with 4. No apostrophe is needed.
Damn, there goes all the good JAV porn.
I agree with 6. There goes JAV porn.
this is just reportage catching up, or else it’s different ISPs getting together on it. I know because I got a note about it from my ISP in Japan in 2004.
It’s important to remember that Japan is a totalitarian *society* at every level. Groups tend to regulate their members pretty heavy-handedly even when government is not directly involved (as it does not *seem* to be here).
I wonder if this will push darknets to go wireless? Those that want to share stuff could do so over local wifi networks completely independently of their ISPs. With Japanese population density being what it is, it would do the job pretty well I would think.
Ah yes…the darknets…completely wireless…except for their backbone connections to the net through ISPs…
Think of all that time teenage boys spend trying to get around paying a few dollars for someone else’s hard work. Energy better spent getting laid.
Proposals like this one just make me laugh. There is no way this can work from a practical standpoint. Think about it. Internet subscribers are paying customers of the ISPs. There is no way the ISPs are going to be excessively aggressive since it only hurts them in the long run both in reputation (hurt by angry users) and in the pocket book…
So what happens then? The copyright owners are going to eventually want everyone who’s file sharing to get punished, and once the large fish are taken care of, then comes the masses. How many customers do you think an ISP is going to axe before they say, hold on a second, we are getting hammered here…
It’s a direct conflict of interest. Sure, it may allow the ISPs to say “Look, we are trying hard” but in reality they don’t really want file sharing to stop, it’s their bread and butter…
Well now there are two reasons to scratch Japan off my list of places to go to. Stupid ISP’s and Fingerprinting at the airport…
Completely agree with number 11. File sharing won’t stop, they’ll just find better ways to do it. Most people who engage in illegal behavior on the internet have better computer skills than the big companies.
I hate Japan, I hate their cheap junk they send to the U.S. I hate everthing about Japan. I wish the ocean would just swallow it up.
i agree with 6 and 7. i am gonna miss that good porn. that is of course if the japan government can really put the pressure on the ISPs to follow through. which brings me to agree with 11. it is a conflict of interest and i find it pathetic that anybody couple come up with such lofty ideas and actually succeed.
i wont happen. so yay, porn is here to stay…at least in japan.
I swear Japan is going to make their own Internet? but if this type of technology gets to the west shores most people are going to get into trouble
But as someone mentioned above – the isp is going to hurt its own pocket because everyone file shares.
People are getting so technical… Screw the Government of Japan, if I were japanese, I would wage anarchy on every informational and government place of work, all they are trying to do is control… get out your rafts, and weather balloons and tie urselves to them, sooner or later you will wash up on the california shore, and then you will be free… or just live in the agony of having nothing because your local ISPs are Dicks….
I know from personal experience that independent artists can’t stay afloat for long and continue to produce content unless they are paid as a means of support, not as a means of greed. I know it’s not it’s not a popular idea but I just had to speak up. We all know a lot of good movies and music are coming from indi-artists and filmmakers right now. I think we should rally in support of original content.
Number 12. In the USA, forget fingerprints. Can you say REAL ID? You will be micro chipped! You won’t be able to go into a Federal building (not that I have any desire to) or an international airport without it or a passport (same deal) for DOMESTIC travel. They’ll do something drastic here in US and blame “terrorists” for it, again. They just won’t tell you that they’re the real terrorists. I have to go now. My friend George Orwell says, “Big brother is watching.” };p
Another stupid move. If you stop one thing we go to the next. When will they ever learn.
Ha ha I got a letter form Cablevision because I was downloading movies from a torrent.
I also agree with #6, there goes the porn! Damn it!
New World Order just the beginning kinda like Hitlers infringement on the Jews.
Japan has never ceased to amaze me with their pioneering of superior principals in Asia. They are taking quite a juxtapose to China, as far as combating piracy goes, and this speaks multitudes for other things. I’m not an Otaku like I was before, but this story is impressive. It’s so ghetto to view pirated media. When did this world become a world of cheapskates?
This will cause a temporary recession in file sharing, no more than maybe two or three weeks. Probably less. After all, when the Blue-Ray discs came out, didn’t someone crack and bypass the code in under a week? No matter how good of a mousetrap the government builds, the masses shall always find a better mouse.
Does anyone else realize how retarded this is so instead of banning people like oh I don’t know pedophiles or convicted criminls like identity thieves there going to ban normal people just trying to download a song instead of paying 30 bucks for cd
I completely agree with number 11 and 13. ISPs want their money, and if it means sacrificrificing (not sure if I spelled that right, I’ve been in a spelling slump.) i.e. allowing file sharing, then that’s a sacrifice they’ll be more than willing to make. Plus, as Riza said, people who engage in illegal behavior on the net, they’ve got mad, mad skillz when it comes to slipping big businesses. I think they work for Microsoft XD!
Just Kidding, just kidding, but yeah. This might work for a time, but it’s probably going to be a shortlived time. Too much money at risk and too many skill “professionals”(hackers…gotta love ‘em). Peace.
Number 13 is right, their are a lot of people with exceptional computer skills, escpitially in Japan.
And to respond to number 24….When the year 2000 hit and everyone stopped fearing the Y2K virus (whatever the hell that meant(-_-)…Y2K…I don’t get it.).
wonder if japaness sub anime episodes will be affected? I hope not T.T
Japan ISPs are banning people that are using their product? Hmm…. lol wut?
i’m not really sure what an ISP is, nor am i sure of what it does. but i do know enough to say that this is a really bad idea that will hurt us good folks who don’t do any file sharing. i propose that instead of doing what they propose just fine those who file share and then get rid of sites that allow file sharing. because, honestly, if the sites that allow file sharing are gone, then there will be no file sharing. end of story.
japanese people are small so their brains are small too and they think of dumb ideas instead of big ideas!
ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!
If Canada or the United States follows Japan in this stupid rule, then about 70% of the network will be banned. I mean who HASNT shared a file? Seriously. If the stupid Japs wanna be stupid and ban there citizens, go ahead ‘cuz i will start a world war 3 over this if the rule is passed to north america >.>
“They that give up liberty for a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” Ben Franklin (……. said this WAY before the war in Iraq )
btw david.
Y=Year
2=2
K=Thousand
anyway this will be civil war can you imgaine some of these world of warcraft players getting kicked off the internet?lol
Just not sure how all this works. So they are cracking down on file sharing in Japan because people are getting illegal copies of movies and music videos and sharing etc? Please Respond. I appreciate.
do’nt worry about it, rock on, rock hard, and get laid, peace out!
this is just another attempt to stop something that can’t be stopped and really should not be. Information is free. All code is merely a series of 1s and 0s which add up to a number. You can’t protect a number. I know people want to make a living off of it but face facts, people will always find a way to steal your stuff. So instead of making $100 million you make $85 million. Stop being greedy or worst case, stop making the stuff in the first place. If you make it, we will steel it
If i got banned from warcraft, i would hunt down the ISP leaders, and plant a virus in theyre computers that ban their own computers from their own networks. That’ll show ‘em ^_^
I currently live in Japan. I’m not really that savvy about file sharing, but what about Peer Guardian? Does it hide the IP address?
NO FREE PORN…NO FREE MUSIC? BIG BROTHER AT IT AGAIN…. WHY CANT THEY JUST LET FOLKS BE FOLKS…….PEACE BROTHERS
I agree with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, not 14, yes to 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, and me…28.
i agree with japan and the us should do the same i live in america born and raised in saint louis missouri but its common sense if we can see and hear things for free then who will pay 4 it and if nobody pays for it how can we see or hear the things we love cause they have a job 2 and if they dont sell or make a certain amount they will be cut off it is time you all it was good why it lasted but the internet is hurting a lot of things for a lot of ppl and if u were those artist actors or whoever u would feel the same way
I find it so cheap of Japan to try to do something like this…So there are a few file sharers, the music & film industry rip off teens as it is and charge over abundant prices for their crap anyway…Teens cannot afford all this, so give them a break already, stop being so cheap…The industries are already billionaires!
my US isp threated to ban me for downloading
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Statistically, no….not everyone shares files. Just the people/thieves that you know. I would also assume someone like that cheats on tests in school and other short-cut, something-for-nothing behaviour.
Well it’s only a problem because 99.999% of file sharing is not good for the producers of the material being shared. Instead, why not simply add a tax to shut them up and be done with it?