Japan's ISPs to ban file sharers!!!!

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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

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Let assume that they get it pass and eventually they ban all the file sharers (that include users and uses). Who is going to pay for their products? Does it mean that they are shooting themselves in the foot?
 
I am sure there is a way to do get files without file sharing in the typical sence. Like maybe setting up email accouts that automatically email spicific files that you request or some such thing.
 
Great. :S

The only reason why I download anime on the internet is because I don't want to wait a few years for it to come out here. It takes too long. Besides, I buy it when it finally does come out here. So they eventually get my money for the stuff. I just don't like waiting years to see it.
 
that sucks, but hopefully this will go the same way the prohibition on alcohol went in the US :zaru

if you don't know what i'm talkin about, READ :edu
 
[E];14644149 said:
that sucks, but hopefully this will go the same way the prohibition on alcohol went in the US :zaru

if you don't know what i'm talkin about, READ :edu
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Yes I don't know what you're talking about. People put their life's work into their media, and people just steal it for their own use while paying 0$. Tell me how that is fair.
 
Kisuke_Urahara said:
Yes I don't know what you're talking about. People put their life's work into their media, and people just steal it for their own use while paying 0$. Tell me how that is fair.
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ok, i'll explain

the prohibition was put into place in order to ban alchohol in the US. however, this increased the crime rate and paved the way for gangsters such as Al Capone to get rich out of contraband and bootlegging. people still found a way to get their alcohol, and this prohibition did not mean anything, so it was taken off

my point? even if you ban an "illegal" activity, there will still be people that find their way around it and make your restriction meaningless

:edu
 
[E];14644922 said:
ok, i'll explain

the prohibition was put into place in order to ban alchohol in the US. however, this increased the crime rate and paved the way for gangsters such as Al Capone to get rich out of contraband and bootlegging. people still found a way to get their alcohol, and this prohibition did not mean anything, so it was taken off

my point? even if you ban an "illegal" activity, there will still be people that find their way around it and make your restriction meaningless

:edu
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Yes exactly. People are gonna make a black market guerilla style internet. Some people will go to any lengths to get what they want. Too bad traditional business models are so incompatible with the internet so they resort to sharing bans etc.
 
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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Ha ha, Winny. That stuff is outdated, people use Share and Perfect Dark nowadays. RAW sources will probably not be affected a lot.
 
This doesn't surprise me. Sony's iron fisted clench on HD formats via Bluray was the result of them working to put an end to CD burning since they were being edged out by people trading music, movies and games over the internet. It's gotten to the point where it's cost effective for them to do something like this. Things like manga scans and recorded TV shows won't stop being traded, but filesharing CD and web-based media will dry up in Japan.

This could turn global in a few months.
 
Lol, there will be a way around this "anti-detection" software not even a month afterwards. Nice try, though. :awesome

And even if they don't, there is always Hong Kong bootlegs for all your anime needs. You know, the real blackmarket. :zaru
 
Well, we'll see how it turns out. Its going to be hard to enforce, people will find ways around it. The first month or 2 might be harsh, but we'll see new ways / backdoors open up soon enough and it will be buiness as usual.

They want to go a long way towards solving this problem? Fix the issue Kya mentioned. People simply do NOT want to wait months - years to get their new / current anime fix. Do something about the ungodly time lag between release in japan and release in the US / Europe, bring the price for anime dvd's down significantly and we'll see allot of pressure ease off of the anime production companies.

Seeing as how the US and Europe market is just as big, if not bigger, then the home market for anime culture and lifestyles, i fail to see why this hasnt been seriously addressed yet.
 
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