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Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools
Modellismo writes "Last week four journalists from Sansai Books were arrested for selling, through the company website, a copy of a magazine published last year (with a free cover mounted disc) focused on how to backup/rip DVDs. They violated Japan's Unfair Competition Prevention Law that recently has been revised to make illegal the sale of any DRM circumvention device or software. It's interesting to note that Japanese cyber police could arrest the Amazon Japan CEO, too, as the online giant is selling a lot of magazines, books and software packages for DVD copy and ripping: exactly what put Sansai Books' staff in trouble."
Except that cyborg is short for "cybernetic organism". So yes, Robo-cop was very much a cyber cop.
Have you actually read one of these magazines? I have a few of them here and they are quite incredible from a westerner's point of view.
I have a couple that are all about downloading, one focused on BitTorrent and the other on Share and Winny. They have huge lists of web sites that index warez, films, TV shows and porn, each one rated for you. They explain how to download and set up emulators, how to burn Playstation 2 games to DVD and chip your console, how to use a Nintendo DS flash card and so forth. On the first page there is a tiny warning about not breaking copyright laws, then 90 pages of how to break copyright laws.
That is the real story here. The fact that the police picked this particular bit of software as their way of prosecuting these guys is just an aside. Personally I love those mags but I can understand why the police were under pressure to find a way of taking action.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
And if you click on the word "cyber" at the top of the article you linked, it takes you to wiktionary where it says:
Etymology
From cybernetic.
Cybernetic comes from Greek meaning "steer" or rudder. It basically means the study of feedback control loops.
yes, and on the subject of the far east, it is pretty much worse than the USA, it is practically social, political, and cultural foundation of the society:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
these guys can do no wrong. it's like the british monarchy also ran apple, ibm, microsoft, google, ge, and gm. this is way beyond special treatments and regulations in your favor. it's not even corporatocracy. it's more like corporate monarchy
someone: what's the term for this insane level of assimilation between political, corporate, and aristocratic power?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it