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Japanese ISPs To Cut Net Access For File Sharers
modemac writes "Four major Japanese telecom organizations, which represent 'about 1,000 major and smaller' domestic ISPs, have agreed to forcibly cut the Internet connection of filesharers. They're specifically targeting users of the 'Winny' program, trading copied gaming software and music. The article states that a new set of ISP guidelines will be drawn up on how to cut off users who 'leak illegally copied material onto the Net.'"
The main target for this act is to stop a file sharing program / network called Winny. Winny is one of the top File sharing program / network in Japan.
Many Japanese anime fansub groups get their original copy of the show via this network. I am sure there are tons of other stuff being shared on Winny, judging from the fact that they have a Software Download board where copyrighted materials are shared.
The creator is facing similar claims to that of the Bittorrent creator, where he has created a tool that can be used to share files with the advantage of being anonymous.
That's a very BAD idea. It should be so fucking obvious what would happen next! First, the "media producer" would raise their rates pulled from their ass. Second, the government would tax more accordingly.
Im sure you would also advocate the government regulate the "media producer" as a response? Seriously, this is how government grows and becomes MORE corrupt. Nice eh?
Life is not for the lazy.
The point I think he was making is that BT is perceived in Japan as P2P for foreigners - mainly because 99%+ of the stuff that Japanese people want is on Winny, whereas trying to find Japanese torrents is a bit hit and miss (since the major BT sites generally don't carry much Japanese material).
It doesn't help that Winny was created for anonymous file sharing I suppose. But it's rather strange, I thought most people migrated to Share when the creator of Winny was arrested, and are now starting to move on to Perfect Dark now that anonymous file sharing isn't possible in Share. I'd think the latter two users would be targeted as well.
Shut up you greedy fuck and start smelling the shit your clearly shoveling. The difference between him and you though, is that he makes a living from it to pay taxes which ultimately provide the welfare cheques and food stamps you rely on to survive.
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They actually do cut off users, sort of. Comcast, if you connect on port 25 somewhere more than some threshhold like 2-3 times a minute, they shut down your outgoing SMTP on port 25. And will never, ever turn it back on, so you have to start using alternate ports.
This is kind of annoying, since a lot of BitTorrent folks put their torrent clients to use ports 25 or 80, and Comcast's net-traffic tools cannot tell the difference between connecting to a remote BitTorrent client, or sending spam. And of course, since this is a false positive, the content doesn't matter. You can download your latest Ubuntu ISO via torrent, or grab one of those net-distributed shows that proliferated during the writers' strike, and have your SMTP shut off!
Fun stuff.
On the other hand, it does stop SOME zombie-spam boxes.
--Rachel
In Japan, change often happens in response to customer complaints, which is extremely rare, if not nonexistent in the US. because, honestly, most Japanese people can barely even type. I regret I took you seriously.
THe MPAA and RIAA would be drooling if Verizon would be dumb enough to do this. Billions in capital just sitting in the bank and knowingly violate copyright laws.
This idea wont work in the west with modern IP laws protecting copyright. The companies will be held liable. Its the same reason alot of universities ban file sharing here in the US. The legal bills are not worth it not to mention they can save with infrastructure.
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Actually, the Japanese tend to use a P2P called "Winny", which is loosely based off of the now defunct WinMX program. I haven't seen many of them on any of the other P2P programs much.
They show up on torrents when I'm dling anime raws. Actually they tend to be more than 50% of the swarm.
In Japan, copyright enforcement is far stronger. Selling illegal copies of Gundam DVDs on an auction site will not only get you arrested, but it will get you on the 6 o'clock news. Counterfit merchandise is illegal to bring into the country, and will get confiscated at customs if you are caught. Im not sure I agree that the copyright here is that much stronger, there seem to be a lot of weird things going on. In Akihabara there are people on the street selling DVDs full of ROMs and bootleg porn every Saturday. They have been there for years. Every video rental store rents music CDs as well as DVDs and they have a stack of blank DVDR CDR and even minidisc media right next to the check out for people to burn themselves copies. The rental stores even have dirt cheap region free Chinese import DVD players stacked 6 feet high on every floor. Also, there are hundreds and hundreds of Manga cafe's (a place to hang out. drink coffee and read comics) with thousands of comics and hundreds of PS2 games available for customers to use. I highly doubt they are all officially licensed. Hard to believe though this may be convenience stores sell magazines with detailed articles on "how to use bit torrent" and "how to hack your PSP for iso images" It seems the government here has been spooked by the specter of P2P without really looking at all the other infringing that is going on.