Japan will block Internet access for illegal file sharers

[paintball745]

A report by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper has said that Japanese companies are planning to block Internet access to anyone who downloads unauthorized files via P2P or other methods.

The newspaper said that Japan's ISPs have been faced "with mounting complaints from the music, movie and video-game industries" and have agreed to take the drastic action. The ISPs will send e-mails to users who repeatedly download illegally and will then terminate their Internet connections if they do not cease and desist.

The ISPs will hold a panel next month with copyright holders to draft a set of guidelines. If this goes through, the actions will be the strictest measures ever taken to fight online piracy. The newspaper estimated that 1.75 million people in Japan use file-sharing software, mainly for unauthorized downloads.

A similar measure brought forth by a Japanese ISP two years ago was shot down when the government said it might violate the right to privacy.

source:http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13259.cfm

[camoor]

The monsters!

Instead they should create disproportionate penalties for downloading songs so that record labels can scare scores of potentially innocent single mothers in the projects, college students, and gangsta-rap sharing grannies into large cash-dollar settlements (the RIAA tried to sue a dead guy too, interestingly enough dead people put up a surprisingly good defense).

[bigdaddy]

Welcome to China! Leave your rights at the door.

[Ikohn4ever]

but how will they get their tentacle porn for free then?

[HuppSav]

I hope they do this in our retarded country.

[fatherofcaitlyn]

I hope they do this in our retarded country.

Currently, your service is disrupted for copyright infringement.

[VanillaGorilla]

I hope they do this in our retarded country.So you think Bush should be "hunged", and now you want this?

[YourFace]

What was happening to file sharers before this? Has the equivalent of the RIAA been waging a massive litigation campaign like in the U.S.? Or is this is a large jump in enforcement potency?

[daphatty]

I feel bad for Cheapy.

[Sarang01]

This is ridiculous. I think the copyright holders should point where to buy the music because some of this music may be oop and impossible to find. How are you suppose to even be able to give some foreign music a listen to even possibly buy later if you can't download it?

[N1c0_ds]

So you think Bush should be "hunged", and now you want this?

Why is he still allowed to have opinions? Your f'd up vision of reality would make you a good president!

EDIT: Talking to the other guy, not to you...

[InuFaye]

I feel bad for Cheapy.


Same.

[JolietJake]

I don't know if if this is worse or better than what happens in the US. You'd lose less money this way, but you'd also have no net access.

[BigT]

If I were in Japan, I'd have to move...

I wonder if rogue ISPs will pop up, offering an uncensored internet. I wonder if they'll just stick it to P2P or if rapidshare and usenet will also be affected. I can easily live without P2P, but take away my usenet and it's war!

[camoor]

I don't know if if this is worse or better than what happens in the US. You'd lose less money this way, but you'd also have no net access.

Yeah, it's like trying to choose between a rotten apple and a rotten pear. They both stink.

[fatherofcaitlyn]

What would stop the person blocked from navigating to a new ISP or opening up service under another name or hacking somebody's wireless router?