Arrests of illegal downloaders under Japan’s new Jail-time-for-downloading Law
The jackboots of JASRAÇ (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Çomposers and Publishers) are having a crackdown on Japanese users who illegally download copyrighted music and video under Japan’s new Jail-time-for-downloading Law (3Yen/ 2013-01-01)
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P2P file sharing software Winny user nodes significantly decrease by approximately 20,000
ITmedia News | 2013/02/23 (goofy Google Translate)
According to a survey conducted in January this year of Association of Copyright for Computer Software (ACCS), the number of P2P file sharing software users has been greatly reduced.
The survey results are from search-bot crawling the Internet looking for Japanese file sharing software that showed a decrease of 20,000 Winny nodes from March last year…
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Note: “Share” is the replacement for Winny* (which stopped development because its Japanese creator was imprisoned a few years ago). Why Japanese love old-style P2P file sharing networks like Winny and Share is a mystery since modern BitTorrent clients have Japanese versions.
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Arrests of 27 people in a crackdown of copyright infringement by Japanese using file-sharing software
My Navi News | 2013/02/23 (goofy Google Translate)
February 22, police announced the results of intensive crackdown simultaneous case of violation of copyright law of using file-sharing software. Police in 47 prefectures carried out these arrests in the fourth major crackdown since 2009.
According to the announcement of the authorities, carried out in three days from February 19 through 21 are simultaneously centralized enforcement…
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*Typical Japanese “Winny” zombie pirate downloader
wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny
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February 26th, 2013 at 12:52 pm
So police in 47 prefectures arrested 27 people?
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February 26th, 2013 at 1:20 pm
That’s pretty damn efficient…for Japan
February 27th, 2013 at 2:32 pm
The only thing that this new law will do is increase CD rentals in Japan. “DUUUHHHH!”
March 1st, 2013 at 9:19 am
Also refer to…
Japanese Police Arrest 27 File-Sharers in Nationwide Show of Force
TorrentFreak / February 28, 2013
Last year Japan introduced one of the toughest laws in the world for dealing with online piracy but with little visible action against file-sharers it was questioned whether the legislation would have teeth. That position has now dramatically switched, with police nationwide carrying out searches on 124 locations and arresting 27 people for online infringement. Those arrested face up to 10 years in jail.
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March 1st, 2013 at 9:25 am
I’m pleased to report that my door here in Tokyo is still on its hinges.
May 21st, 2013 at 11:26 pm
LDP to propose that Japanese ISPs must save the Internet access records of their users
yomiuri.co.jp | 2013 May 20 (goofy Google Translate)
The Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Liberal Democratic Party proposed an Action Plan on Internet security measures that the government should take before the end of the year…
…ISPs will be required to save of web access records of their users to assure a way of tracking them and to identify suspects of cyber crime… it was also proposed establishment of an organization to perform analysis and information gathering…more...
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Original Japanese — Yomiuri Shimbun 20 May 2013
yomiuri.co.jp/politics/news/20130520-OYT1T01056.htm