Japanese ISPs Agree to Ban Pirates from the Internet
Written by enigmax on March 15, 2008Following a huge increase in complaints from the music, movie and software industries, the four major Japanese ISP organizations have agreed that they will work with copyright holders to track down copyright infringing file-sharers and disconnect them from the internet.
In 2006, a Japanese ISP decided to plan measures to stop their subscribers using file-sharing software, by tracking their activities and disconnecting them from the Internet. The plan didn’t come to fruition as the government stepped in and said that such monitoring might have privacy implications.
Now, under huge pressure from the movie, music and software industries, the four major ISP organizations in Japan are at it again, and have agreed to take drastic action against online pirates.
According to the report in Yomiuri Shimbun, the agreement would see copyright holders tracking down file-sharers on the Internet using “special detection software” and then notifying ISPs of alleged infringers. ISPs would first send out emailed warnings to those traced, then interrupt the Internet connection if action to cease the activity isn’t taken. For persistent breaches, the ISP would ultimately terminate the accounts of its subscribers.
These four major ISP organizations - which include Telecom Service Association and the Telecommunications Carriers Association - are made up of around 1,000 other ISPs, a large portion of the Japanese market. In collaboration with the copyright holders, the ISPs will set up a panel in April to decide exactly how the system should operate.
Right now, there is a lot discussion surrounding the suggestion that persistent file-sharers could be banned from the internet. So far there have been proposals in France, the UK and Australia.
During December last year we reported that the number of internet users file-sharing in Japan had increased by a 180% in a single year.
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sure kiddy porn is fine there but they do this? Those wacky chinks…
LMAO I would disconnect from my ISP
good one I hope the big 4 will be happy to know that all thier subscribers will cancel thier contract.
Next week on Tf; Jap ISPs apologise for disconnection
What a truly moronic strategy. ISPs should sell higher priced high volume subscriptions to filesharers, not turn them over on a silver plate to the competition.
All they NEED to do is find a way to distract the Japenese and they’ll forget all about filesharing or P2p! Just stand in a crowded street and shout, “It is Godzilla”! This is sure to start a stampede!
This is like grocery stores going after people who eat a lot of food - their main customers.
I thought the Japanese would be better then us when it comes to reason and protecting its people, but looks like they cracked before anyone else. Though only Japanese people are nice enough to give a couple of warnings before you are internet-less unlike some European isp’s which give out the information followed by the mafia’s(IFPH) suing tactics. Still the Japanese government will step in as it isn’t different from the previous case in 2006.
[quote comment="312009"]sure kiddy porn is fine there but they do this? Those wacky chinks…[/quote]
just because the title is japanese doesn’t mean you have to start thinking about porn.
Well back to Darknets for our fellow Jap pirates.
[quote comment="312013"]All they NEED to do is find a way to distract the Japenese and they’ll forget all about filesharing or P2p! Just stand in a crowded street and shout, “It is Godzilla”! This is sure to start a stampede![/quote]
LOL.
Good for the ISP’s not a form of their cartel.
And they should rejoice for the loss of subscribers as well.
Good Riddance.
Heres more proof that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have scrambled quite a few brains for generations…. not to mention made their penis’ shorter and tits smaller :p
LMAO, they’re stupid. Let’s control everyone and steal any remaining privacy they’ve got.
This is actually quite a good strategy for japan. Japanese citizens are easily intimidated, contrary to western european or american surfers. The japanese isps will probably do more benefit with the reduced traffic, than loss with the loss of customers.
Looks like some ISPs won’t have any customers by the end of the year. They’ll all have been disconnected from the internet and join another ISP.
No customers = no profits = no company.
They have to realise that they are not only competing us pirates but also other ISPs. People will flock to them just ike Comcast.
(It keeps says im posting comments to quickly (this is my first one). Add file locks (flocks) to your system to stop the timestamps being recorder as a global user)
This will really hurt JAP ISPs.
As Jap ISPs ban pirate, all their customers will downgrade their internet connection first.
So if a 10Mbit connect cost 50$, they will downgrade to 512Kbps LoL
so they will pay only 8-9$/month.
Decrease of 90% income for JAP ISPs.
If i were owner of ISPs in JAP, i would reply to movie/software/music companies a big FUCK OFF.
They are thinking about their profit, not thinking what will happen to JAP ISPs income.
JAP ISPs, please be careful before taking this huge action ! ! !
Think + Think + Rethink ! ! !
A Swedish ISP called Telia did this a couple of years ago. I actually got kicked out.
ISP’s in Japan are going to try to stop the pirates…good luck with that
Stop using public p2p & encrypt transfers, you can be anonymous.
Perhaps cultural values cause more Asian places (Japan, Hong Kong) to ban piracy compared to European countries (Sweden, Russia) that don’t have such strict laws.
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[quote comment="312070"]Stop using public p2p & encrypt transfers, you can be anonymous.[/quote]
what if they see a huge surge in encrypted traffic to your computer and cut you off based on that?
This agreement is dead-on-arrival, whether or not the Japanese government steps in to block it.
The concept of “special detection software” for singling out each and every filesharing session that somehow infringes copyright, is so God damn unfeasible from both an economical and logistical standpoint that to say these movie, music, and software industry executives have shit-for-brains must be a literal description.
The best they could ever *realisticly* hope for is an inefficient, inaccurate, easily spoofed, and costly net-monitoring system that results in nothing more than driving subscribers away to rival P2P-friendly ISPs.
This little endeavor has FAIL written all over it.
@f@ckthosechinks:
They’re not even Chinese. Being racist and being stupid don’t have to go hand-in-hand, you know.
Geez Louise.
“So if a 10Mbit connect cost 50$, they will downgrade to 512Kbps LoL
so they will pay only 8-9$/month.
Decrease of 90% income for JAP ISPs.
If i were owner of ISPs in JAP, i would reply to movie/software/music companies a big FUCK OFF.”
Agreed. There’s no excuse for the caving. I’m willing to say it’s a ruse, even.
[quote comment="312021"][quote comment="312009"]sure kiddy porn is fine there but they do this? Those wacky chinks…[/quote]
just because the title is japanese doesn’t mean you have to start thinking about porn.[/quote]
Great point!
[quote comment="312021"][quote comment="312009"]sure kiddy porn is fine there but they do this? Those wacky chinks…[/quote]
just because the title is japanese doesn’t mean you have to start thinking about porn.[/quote]
Great point!
[quote comment="312009"]sure kiddy porn is fine there but they do this? Those wacky chinks…[/quote]
Stay on topic. The readers of torrent freak are not here to entertain your racist misconceptions.
Filesharing is under attack in every place around the world. We file sharers need unity - not prejudice - in these times.
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