Japanese ISPs To Ban File Sharers

In Japan Winny is akin to Kazza and most of those in the know use Share or Perfect Dark .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_(P2P)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P....._%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?

I just use my localally government funded public library.
There i can find games,cd’s to check out,all sorts of media.
The government cant stop public libraries.
Neither can RIAA

That’s a bunch of crap. There’s no way they’ll be able to enforce that. There are legitimate file sharing programs so how will you be able to differentiate? No more sending photos? No more downloading songs? How can the technological gods ban file sharing?

I agree with no.5 for agreeing no.4.

I dunno, it’s probably a better idea to convince users to buy the media rather than force them to. Sure, this means there will always be pirates and sharers, but most people I know don’t mind paying; it’s just easier to download it free. I’d like to quote Jonathan Coulton, in fact: “Already stole it? No problem, just make a donation!”

And no 19? That true? I’m international and we never had that.

I agree with 4 and 6. I need my JAV.

Ah yes number 46 those poor actors. Poor Nicole Kidman, or Tom Cruise. Poor Britney, she can’t spend her money like she used to.They are homeless , living on the streets. My heart breaks for them.

BTW I have a friend in the industry who file shares, so there is a bit of irony about that.

haha..when will they learn, no matter how good a company is theres always a better programmer out there somewhere that will break open the new restrictions. Bet at most it will take a month before Japanese file sharing is alive and well again. It’s actually sort of sad that theres so many hackers not getting the credit they deserve out there, even so I’m happy they decide to stay solo rather than look for a job doing it for some company.

japan sucks, go china

i personally think of the internet as a way to expand knowledge, and this is just a way to hog things that should be shared with all of humanity. it’s like rich people. they keep it all for themselves, prefering to live in their own little bubble then do what’s right in the long run

You dummies, didn’t you read this part of the article,

“Oddly the agreement to do so has not come from the Japanese Government, but from Japan’s four internet service provider organizations after pressure”

The ISPs agreed to this, not the governments. The entertainment business has strong influence over the ISPs in Japan.

They might be able to control the problem for a while…but it will continue.
I also agree with many here that Japan and the US should focus on internet issues that effect the masses…not the rich movie studios and artists.

I was in Japan a couple of months ago…and damn they have great work ethics over there. In NYC we just want to make more money and work less.

http://www.japanesecherries.com ENJOY

Everything in japan is licenced and nothing in japan are pirated.If they do that then more people from japan will buy softwares and movies and music etc which will cost a lot but it is the rite thing to do.Most of the softwares that people use all over the woirld are pirated i think this is good and i bet all of the other countries will follow this example

japan is awesome. ur just jealous cuz japan kicks ass. and china sux fresno. american food also sux. so many fatasses in this country

Hopefully we’ll follow in their example. Look at all of the music acts and shows they have compared to us. These days it’s next to impossible for a music act to make money. We have jack right now. All you file sharers are just stupid anyways. You’ll just whine about getting your free stuff.

Hello #12,
Don’t do this.. I know you are not serious…. i’ve been there to Japan.. you dont know what you would be missing!

Peer to Peer file sharing perpetuates more Viruses & other flotsam that helps keep the PC repair Biz alive & well Rock on Illegal file sharers

haha, the service providers are going to block subscribers internet? this is just a publicity ploy, to aggrandize efforts to stalwart these networks. darknets and anyone not completely stupid will get around this, if isps even enforce this, which would backfire anyways. good thing im d/ling the deathnote movie from a briton.

Very insightful points from number 6 and 7. We need our porn!

Since I live in Japan, I can’t get the shows from back home that I like, ex: Family Guy. But, when the season comes out on DVD I buy it. So it’s not exactly for wanting something for free or stealing. I actually buy the stuff later on. Grant it, I have to pay maybe 30.00 more for it but I do like owing my shows. It’s what my sanity in this place because J-TV is so damn boring!

I don’t think anyone should be able to physically share any files, but virtually, on the internet, it should be ok.

It’s when people start taking the files off the internet…soon the internet will be empty.

Good for you Japan

Would I be banned from the Internet if I copied a documentary about government sponsored terrorism like ” Terror Storm “? What If I shared a small film on the controlled demolition of the World Trade Centers? You should be very careful about what any government crackdown might TRULY be about. The people that make music and movies deserve to make a $… But the minute YOUR Internet gets limited…we all lose.

japan is nothing compared to fresno….CEN CAL pride baby

thats complete crap

To “Pricilla ” and similar posters:

Nothing is for free…someone had to pay for it…and that’s why there are “billionaires”…they didn’t steal stuff, they WORKED for it.

Do the same!

“Teens cannot afford all this, so give them a break already, stop being so cheap…The industries are already billionaires!”

You know, why eat up your time & bandwidth trying to d/l a movie you can rent for a buck?

And hey, why can’t I rent a CD?

Hmmm, well, I live in Japan and there is not one person I know that does not file share. So I guess everyone is going to be banned from the internet -_- I mean, seriously, most people who use the internet are sharing files. Yeah, they can crack down on certain sites or programs, but in the end people are still going to do it, and they’re going to find ways around it. Also, they’re being kind of vague. Are they going to ban file sharers in general, or specifically people sharing illegal files. Not all file sharing is illegal.

where the hell is fresno anyways?

File sharing programs or websites are NOT ILLEGAL in anyway the act of sharing is. See Napster messed up because they would lets say customer A had a song and customer B wanted the song too. Napster would get the song from customer A and hold it for B until they downloaded the song. That is where they messed up. That’s against the law. But as all the file sharing programs out there now do not do that. They inturn say customer A has this song and customer B wants the song they direct customer B to customer A to get the song. They are just a program to show you who to get the song/movie/app from. Which inturn is not illegal in anyway you are just providing a service of find who has what to share.

I don’t know very much about the issue other than people chase after each other for money. One thought I have is that file sharing played a huge factor in attracting Internet users when there were only a few big websites. Within the same population many users used those big websites, and without file sharing the Internet community wouldn’t be where it is today.

‘Thanks for helping us get started, but now that the Internet is a happening place and there’s far more services than anyone would have thought at the time, now it’s time to remove the bottom layer.’

Oh no! Japan banning file sharing? What’s this mean? A shortage in bukkakii videos??

People need to strike back at these big industries by boycotting them for a solid month–don’t buy ANYTHING, no CD’s, DVD’s, etc. Show them that we’re the ones that pay their salary…and show them that if they think downloaders are bad, boycotts are a helluva lot worse.

Then, after that month, tell them that if they infringe upon people’s information sharing, we’ll boycott them again and again, as long as it takes to make the greedy bastards see the light.

Look at the writer’s strike in the USA…it took a while, but the industry finally backed down when they realized that they couldn’t live without the “little guy” writers. We need to do something worldwide, to make the recording/movie/game industries understand that they can’t live without the downloaders they hate so much.

BTW, I wouldn’t have bought a single CD from Japan, if I hadn’t been introduced to J-pop via file sharing. Thousands of other non-Japanese are buying Japanese CD’s and the like, for the same reason.

Downloaders aren’t hurting the industry–they’re giving the industry free advertising. These money grubbers need to STFU and realize they’re gaining far more than they’re losing, from file sharers.

I find it alarming that so many people in this discussion seem to find it irrelevant that file sharing is illegal… it is theft… stealing. It is wrong. It is not right. People should not be doing it. My goodness! How difficult a concept is that to understand? Musicians and other producers of imaginative content own the creative products that they have generated, and rightly so. I spend a great deal of my hard-earned money on CDs and movies, and would be offended if someone were to suggest to me that i download them for free. It’s not a good way to live, people!

The four ISP companies who are putting this together will out right loose customers to their smaller competitors, this will turn out to be a huge bungle in the eyes of stock holders(who don’t give two $hits about online piracy or even do it themselves)as smart people will not even bother waiting for their “warnings” or lines to get cut off and be labeled by these companies as a web-pirate.

Instead their customer base will just look else where for ISP services, and trust me there will be companies who will step in make a boat load of profits from people switching. Hell I bet the Yakuza would even want some of that pie, good profits, and a nice way to launder currency. Glad I am not a stock holder of these companies as news like this would just make me want to.. whats the word im looking for.. oh yeah SELL.

totally agree with 47.

WTF you mean where the hell is fresno….where the hell isn’t fresno is a better question, you communist!!!!!!

number 26 just go to ebay for gods sake. Almost every CD I paid for did not cost $30.00 I got them all from bidding sites for less than $2.00 including new releases. The only albums I paid close to a total of $110 for was back in 2005 when I didnt even know anything about ebay or sites that sold stuff for less.

Likewise they can bann all they want because I’ll just simply buy everything people steal. For one thing file sharing movie sites have lousy quality and they never seem to have anything from the 1980s or 1990s.

And also Marie (number 18) Indi film makers do not make the best movies let alone the best music. Good music depends on your taste. So if thats your opinion then hey its yours to keep. Me personally good music died out after the 1980s and 1990s ended. But I still find Seal’s new album “System” to be a good listener and that came out this year.

I also still think that its impossible to beat songs like “Beat It” or “Billie Jean”. Or movies like Star Wars and Bloodsport.

I think this is great, Piracy is a Crime and needs to be regulated, artists and the people who work to make software, movies and music need to be protected. I hope they are able to do it successfully and that this would be implemented in the US soon.

I have read a few posts where people think ISPs will not want to do this because it alienates their customers, but I think it actually is part of their plan to keep paying customers. I would imagine a lot of heavy file sharers are a small percent of the population and if threatened with being banned from getting internet at their home would be a lot less likely to share. Bandwith is not unlimited and eliminating heavy users helps to keep other people happy with their connection speed and reduce the amount of upgrades the ISPs need to do, which in turn saves them money.

As a busy owner I would gladly get rid of the 1 or 2% of users who might use 10, 20 or 30% of my ability to do business while not paying anymore then the guy who logs on once a day to read a few news articles and two e-mails. This is a business decision, not a privacy or free speech issue. The ISPs want to reduce the load on their network and at the same time avoid possible costly lawsuits.

DAMN! BS! if they are so intellegent, instead of banning file sharing, which is foremost the function of being in the net, STOP internet all throughout !?! isn’t it that the reason why interconnection was developed and has evolved is because WE all want to share files easily? WHAT THEY NEED TO DO IS DEVELOP A BETTER PERSON OUT OF THEIR PEOPLE. Instill good values to their young ones instead! Especially to the one’s holding position in the government. There is nothing wrong with sharing files! unless your intention is to destroy the goodness out of it! you just want more money, i suppose. if the whole world is as stupid in thinking as you, we would be damned!

I will be angry I don’t get my bukkakke videos anymore. Communism I tell ya communism is making a cumback.

NO soup for you! You come back one year!

11, 13, 27. Nice of you to be positive but you aren’t thinking realistically. Who do you think the ISPs are more concerned about, a few file shares paying $20~$50 a month for internet access or the Entertainment industry with their huge financial lawsuits?

All you idiots claiming that you are losing your liberties and freedom need to grow up and move out of your parent’s homes. Stealing and theft of the work of other’s is not a protected liberty or freedom you are entitled to. Alot of your comments only prove you are big on rhetoric and small on intelligence. If you morons are not more responsible about what you are doing you will eventually lose your real freedoms and liberties and end up sitting in a jail cell. Bryan, you are the biggest idiot here.

Can someone tell me if Peer Guardian works , yes or no?

And J-porn sucks. They just put the pixelated squares on the private parts big deal.

I don’t think this will work, ISPs will lose too much money, and don’t the guys who work for them also use file sharing? so how does that work? they’re going to ban their own people?

I agree with #63!!!
Japan rocks!!! gee what’s wrong with healthy, friendly people?

Top the post above mine, way to teach the internets.

36. Just because its Ben Franklin doesn’t mean its right.

Bravo # 81 ! Sugoi ne ^_^

Although I disagree with this proposal, Japan in general is pretty cool. I lived there for several years and the people are wonderful. And contrary to #14’s response, they don’t send or build “cheap stuff.” The Japanese have degrees of manufacturing quality that beats almost everyone in the world. The Koreans are starting to catch up, and the good ‘ole USA may someday build autos that come close to the Japanese. It is a homogenous society, but they are very leading edge on most issues and gadgets. Don’t cross it off places to visit- if you want to see the coolest gadgets that you can’t even buy yet in the U.S., take a trip to the Akihabara district in Tokyo… it’s awesome!

I pay 60$ a month to my ISP, as I am sure others pay, maybe the ISPs should cough up some funds to the studios, the way I see I pay for whatever I do on the Internet.

japan < fresno

big brother always looms, however independent artists NEED to survive, I c
heat (as I see it) and file share but we need some protection for the artists as art will not survive in an anarchistic enviroment

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

The “NO”

I live in Japan and I just paid $35 for a CD and as a musician, too, I know that the artists probably got 10 cents. This is not about supporting artists.

ah man dose this mean anime is going to be evan harder to find….!

Information is never free and someone has had to work for it. It is not however bad that there is such a source of information as the internet. How I see it, it is a check and balance system. Producers make something, publish it, and make money. The internet file sharing people prevent them from continously uping the price and getting greedy. If you don’t want something shared, make a product that people want that can’t be replicated at home, like a movie that is a complicated program instead of a series of pics, something home comps can’t reproduce. People may copy it, but won’t be as good.
Its a first step, and a needed one if internet control is to be had, but I think if companies consentrated more on making products better, cost effective, and easier accessable, it would be a better step.

To add to 47, the record companies only pay the artists a small fraction of the actual cost of a CD. They base their online download prices on CD prices. CD prices are based on recording costs, advertising and the cost of making the CD and its case. Recording costs these days are minimal, since it can be done with a good laptop and a little skill, while downloading eliminates the production and case costs of the CD. Further, with decreased cost would come increased purchases and the price should drop even more. And it costs the same (relatively) for one person to download a song or a million. Once the cost of media goes down to a reasonable level, there will be less incentive for people to get around legitimately purchasing them. The music industry has failed to keep up with the internet age, and are suffering as a result.

This will be very hard to enforce. Also the alleged crime cannot be defined precisely. As a result it will be catch22 that can be used to harass anybody they choose to harass.

japan is cool and this idea is stupid and for those of you who say how will they get paid well there are things such as concerts where if the person is good enough people will show up and pay to be there.

this will not stop anyone, and they know it. if nothing else, they’ll just use a wireless connection in cyber-cafes and they cant stop them there- they’re paying costumers and they dont want to risk losing busness. also, those ISPs who have banned the file-sharing will have new competion that wont require it, and everyone will go to them instead. its a really bad idea that wont ever work.

Anyone else smell lawsuits from the future?

I agree with 7.

When napster came up I thought that was the end of the music industry but from what I have seen Singers are still millionaires, and Movie actors too…. So give a break to those whom make the minimum wage like me.

How do they plan to really stop the computer geeks? They will always find another way to spread the “wealth”.
If they are going to ban file sharing, why not just ban the whole internet altogether? Someone will come up with a better way to share files. At the extreme, it will end up as the original face-to-face sharing.

Japan is going to create a huge underground of file sharers. The Japanese government is run by people who have no real experience with computers. They don’t know what is going on.

They might as well adopt the same kind of internet access as what China has. In China, you are watched all the time on the web.

No one can stop the computer geeks.

ohh noo

You take down the big fish and all the small ones take their place. Now instead of checking if the download comes from one big kazaa style site now you have to worry about several smaller sights popping up. It’s a money losing proposition, the staff it will take to check all these illegal files + the amount of subscribers that they will lose = huge lose of profit. The first ISP provider that relaxes it rules will gain the market share anyway, your the begging for trouble. Here in America, you know what we do? We make money off the youtubes and file-sharing sites in the world. We stopped fighting and just focused back on profit.

why would the Internet providers agree to permanantly ban people for file sharing? wouldn’t they be hurting themselves in the end by losing customers?

# 102 don’t try to make Japan sound like an Utopia. Been here for 3 years now.

Yeah, Akiba is cool and yeah most people are friendly (especially in Kansai area like Osaka and Kobe) coz Tokyo folks are cold-hearted jerks., but I’m guessing you were one of the white boys that got alot of J-girl booty as a an ”English teacher”.

While don’t you tell them about the ”Chuo-cide Line” in Shinjuku where dumbasses go and jump on front of a train during morning rush hour and make me late for work?

Another thought.. how far would the average artist distribution stretch without file sharing? We are evolving into a society where you must give people quality content for free before they want to spend money on you. Radiohead and NIN have been successful in following this model.

Notice it said it is using a special detection software. Now does anyone knows what that would be? If so then maybe we can counter that software as in be invisble to it another words software always has security hole in it. It’s amazing they just keep tight on music & movies. But not video games lol!

Is there a way for ISPs or someoone to not allow sites on the web in the first place that partake in file sharing? I twould make more sense to me to stop the problem their. Stop the file sharing websites from ever getting on the web in the first place; they are the ones allowing people to download. I don’t know if that is feasible but….

TechCrunch needs some form of comment moderation…

Uh retardos. When you spend X amount on producing a record, or a movie, and within minutes the whole world has your product shared for free - then there is no longer any profit in making movies or music. So you cease to make material. Then who are the suckers? This happened recently in a particular genre of adult material. The producers just stopped. Now no-one is making that material. Now all the ‘fans’ are sobbing into their kerchiefs because they have nothing to watch. “Well done” you heros of the digital age. You’re killing the goose. And to the tard who thinks weeks, months and years of hard work creating a movie is ‘just a string of 1s and 0s’… get a brain and / or a life. When your parents expect their paycheck at the end of the month and they end up broke and on the street with nothing because they are told ‘uh, someone shared your wages, rock n roll man’… do use the brain you were born with for a change huh.

They can not kill somthing which can not be killed, they can’t even get rid of the Triad in there country what makes them think they can stop P2P!!

Maybe Japan still has wizards running around, cause that’s what it’s going to take.

It seems the ISPs could get away with getting rid of people with file sharing. Most statistics say a small percentage of the total population uses file sharing, though it is higher in the US, Europe, and Japan. Also the way the Japan government works, I wouldn’t put it past them for the government to give tax breaks and other money back into the ISPs to make sure they can still run. But if the government is not fully behind this act, I do not seeing it being totally effective.

I agree with number 5 & 6… there goes JAV porn. Now where are we going to get shots of girls pissing and pooing, and anamie chicks with big breasts? It’s not just japanese porn folks… its the best of Japanese culture. Well, I never liked sharing anyways. You boys need to not be so cheap and get out there and by a freakin CD like the rest of us; god!

What is ban?

lol..bring it on!

hey, well this is what I think:

This will never work. I agree with 149. What is ban? Isn’t it when you’re banned from a place/site. yes

this will never be implemented here in the philippines, but it’s gonna suck since I get anime from japanese sites… hmm… piracy is too big a business to stop… hackers will find a way as always to get pass this… at worst I guess they’ll develope a new software which can bypass whatever the government tries…

I know i pay alot of money for high speed every month, and if I cant get stuff to watch why pay for it go back to dial up if all they want us to do is read the news.

This is rediculous the internet should not be owned or controlled by anyone, its like the combination of human conciousness.

yeah number 6 there goes the porn